Spin seebeck effect and thermal colossal magnetoresistance in graphene nanoribbon heterojunction

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ni, Yun ^a   Yao, Kailun ^a,b   Fu, Huahua ^a   Gao, Guoying ^a   Zhu, Sicong ^a   Wang, Shuling ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MATERIALS PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84875136118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01380     Document Type: Article

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