Voltage-controlled spin injection with an endohedral fullerene Co@C 60 dimer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 17, 2013, Pages

  Saffarzadeh, Alireza ^a,b   Kirczenow, George ^b  

^a PAYAME NOOR UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; DENSITY OF STATE; ENDOHEDRAL FULLERENE; FERROMAGNETIC ELECTRODES; NON-MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; SPIN DEPENDENT TRANSPORT; SPIN SPLITTINGS; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED;

ELECTRODES; SPIN POLARIZATION;

FULLERENES;

EID: 84877253525     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4803471     Document Type: Article

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