Conductance of Rashba spin-split systems with ferromagnetic contacts

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1-4

  Larsen, Morten Høgsbro ^a   Lunde, A Mathias ^a   Flensberg, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 85038902762     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.66.033304     Document Type: Article

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