Spintronic transport of a non-magnetic molecule between magnetic electrodes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 23, 2013, Pages

  Kondo, Hisashi ^a   Ohno, Takahisa ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC ELECTRODES; MAGNETORESISTANCE EFFECTS; NON EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION METHOD; NONMAGNETICS; SPIN INJECTION;

ELECTRODES; GALVANOMAGNETIC EFFECTS; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84889809860     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4840176     Document Type: Article

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