Room-temperature air-stable spin transport in bathocuproine-based spin valves

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sun, Xiangnan ^a   Gobbi, Marco ^a   Bedoya Pinto, Amilcar ^a   Txoperena, Oihana ^a   Golmar, Federico ^a,b   Llopis, Roger ^a   Chuvilin, Andrey ^a,c   Casanova, Fèlix ^a,c   Hueso, Luis E ^a,c  

^a CIC NANOGUNE   (Spain)

^b INTI CONICET   (Argentina)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHOCUPROINE; CUPROUS ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTRON; INORGANIC COMPOUND; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONDUCTANCE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THICKNESS;

EID: 84887692587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3794     Document Type: Article

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