Impurity-assisted Andreev reflection at a spin-active half metal-superconductor interface

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Wilken, Francis B ^a   Brouwer, Piet W ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 84860494437     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.134531     Document Type: Article

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