Microscopic mechanism of the noncrystalline anisotropic magnetoresistance in (Ga,Mn)As

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 16, 2009, Pages

  Výborný, Karel ^a   Kučera, Jan ^a   Sinova, Jairo ^a,b   Rushforth, A W ^c   Gallagher, B L ^c   Jungwirth, T ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 72849150877     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.165204     Document Type: Article

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