Enhanced spin accumulation at room temperature in graphene spin valves with amorphous carbon interfacial layers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Neumann, I ^a,b   Costache, M V ^a   Bridoux, G ^a   Sierra, J F ^a   Valenzuela, S O ^a,b,c  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON LAYER; CARBON DEPOSITION; ELECTRON BEAM-INDUCED DEPOSITION; INTERFACIAL LAYER; LARGE CURRENT DENSITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPIN VALVE; SPIN-ACCUMULATIONS;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; DEPOSITION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84884243581     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4820586     Document Type: Article

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