Magnetoresistance in Co/ZnO films

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2684-2687

  Li, Xiao Li ^a,b   Quan, Zhi Yong ^a   Xu, Xiao Hong ^a   Wu, Hai Shun ^a   Gehring, G A ^c  

^a SHANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annealing; Magnetic semiconductor; Magnetoresistance (MR); Sputtering

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952791041     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2003238     Document Type: Article

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