Modulation of pure spin currents with a ferromagnetic insulator
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Estitxu Villamor,1 Miren Isasa,1 Saül Vélez,1 Amilcar Bedoya-Pinto,1 Paolo Vavassori,1,2 Luis E. Hueso,1,2 F. Sebastián Bergeret,3,4 and Fèlix Casanova1,2,* 1CIC nanoGUNE, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain 2IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain 3Centro de Fı́sica de Materiales (CFM-MPC) Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain 4Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain (Received 8 April 2014; revised manuscript received 20 September 2014; published 9 January 2015)
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