Spin-dependent scattering and the spin polarization of a diffusive current in partly disordered L10 epitaxial FePd

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Seemann, K M ^a,b   Hickey, M C ^a,c   Baltz, V ^a,d   Hickey, B J ^a   Marrows, C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^d CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ORDERING; CRYSTAL PLANES; CURRENT FLOWING; DIFFUSIVE CURRENTS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ORDERED STRUCTURES; PD ATOMS; SPIN DEPENDENT SCATTERING; SPIN-POLARIZED CURRENTS; SPINTRONIC DEVICE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION MEASUREMENTS;

ATOMS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; EPITAXIAL FILMS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; PALLADIUM; SPIN POLARIZATION; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 77951434530     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/3/033033     Document Type: Article

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