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G. Miao, A. V. Ramos, and J. S. Moodera, Heteroepitaxial Superconducting Spin Valves, Physical Review Letters, vol.101, issue.13, p.137001, 2007.
DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.137001

R. Stanescu, C. Mattana, F. Deranlot, and . Petroff, Effect of optical lithography patterning on the crystalline structure of tunnel junctions, Appl. Phys. Lett, vol.91, p.241917, 2007.

C. Petroff and . Gatel, Room temperature spin filtering in epitaxial cobalt-ferrite tunnel barriers, Appl. Phys. Lett, vol.91, p.122107, 2007.

A. V. Ramos, J. Moussy, M. Guittet, M. Gautier-soyer, C. Gatel et al., tunnel barriers, Physical Review B, vol.75, issue.22, p.224421, 2007.
DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.224421

A. V. Ramos, J. Moussy, M. Guittet, A. M. Bataille, M. Gautier-soyer et al., Magnetotransport properties of Fe3O4 epitaxial thin films: Thickness effects driven by antiphase boundaries, Journal of Applied Physics, vol.100, issue.10, p.103902, 2006.
DOI : 10.1063/1.2386927

A. V. Ramos, J. Moussy, R. Mattana, F. Petroff, T. S. Santos et al., Spin-polarized tunneling study of the room temperature spin filter CoFe 2 O 4, 2008.

A. V. Ramos, J. Moussy, R. Mattana, and F. Petroff, Room temperature spin filtering with epitaxial CoFe 2 O 4 tunnel barriers, Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, 2007.

. Warot-fonrose, Magnétismè a l'interface des bicouchesépitaxiéesàbicouchesépitaxiéesbicouchesépitaxiéesà base de CoFe 2 O 4 (invité), Journées Nanomagnétisme, 2007.

. Petroff, Epitaxial CoFe 2 O 4 (111)-based tunnel junctions for spin filter applications, International Conference on Nano Science and Technology, 2007.

C. Viret, P. Gatel, B. Bayle-guillemaud, E. Warot-fonrose, and . Snoeck, Croissancé epitaxiale de couches minces et de multicouchesàmulticouchesà base de CoFe 2 O 4 (111) en vue de leur utilisation comme filtrè a spin, Colloque Louis Néel, vol.11, 2007.

A. V. Ramos, J. Moussy, M. Guittet, and M. Gautier-soyer, Epitaxial CoFe 2 O 4 (111)-based multilayers for spin filter applications, 2007.

A. V. Ramos, J. Moussy, M. Guittet, and M. Gautier-soyer, CoFe 2 O 4 thin films grown by oxygen plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy for spintronics applications, European Materials Research Society spring meeting, 2006.

A. V. Ramos, Systèmes multicouchesàmulticouchesà base de CoFe 2 O 4 (111) pour le filtrage de spinàspinà température ambiante, CEA-Saclay DSM/IRAMIS/SPCSI, 2008.

A. V. Ramos, Croissancé epitaxiale de couches minces et de multicouchesà multicouchesà base de CoFe 2 O 4 (111) en vue de leur utilisation comme filtrè a spin, 2007.

A. V. Ramos, Epitaxial CoFe 2 O 4 (111) for their potential integration into elementary spin filter devices, 2006.