Proximity effects and characteristic lengths in ferromagnet-superconductor structures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 1-17

  Halterman, Klaus ^a   Valls, Oriol T ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 85038320395     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.66.224516     Document Type: Article

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