Apparent spin polarization decay in cu-dusted Co /Al2O 3/Co tunnel junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 13, 2000, Pages

  LeClair, P ^a   Swagten, H J M ^a   Kohlhepp, J T ^a   Van De Veerdonk, R J M ^a   De Jonge, W J M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACE LAYERS; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; MODEL SYSTEMS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

COBALT COMPOUNDS; COPPER; IN SITU PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MONOLAYERS; POLARIZATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 0000836991     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2933     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. J. S. Moodera, L. R. Kinder, T. M. Wong, and R. Meservey, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3273 (1995).
2. M. Julliere, Phys. Lett. 54A, 225 (1975).
3. R. Meservey and P. M. Tedrow, Phys. Rep. 238, 173 (1994).
4. V. Vedyaev et al., Europhys. Lett. 39, 219 (1997).
5. S. Zhang and P. M. Levy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5660 (1998).
6. W. Zhang, B. Li, and Y. Li, Phys. Rev. B 58, 14 959 (1998).
7. J. Mathon and A. Umerski, Phys. Rev. B 60, 1117 (1999).
8. J. J. Sun and P.P. Freitas, J. Appl. Phys. 85, 5264 (1999).
9. S.S.P. Parkin, see U.S. Patent No. 5764567 (1998) (unpublished).
10. J.S. Moodera, M.E. Taylor, and R. Meservey, Phys. Rev. B 40, R11980 (1989).
11. P. LeClair et al., J. Appl. Phys. (to be published).
12. J.S. Moodera et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 69, 708 (1996).
13. W.F. Brinkman, R.C. Dynes, and J.M. Rowell, J. Appl. Phys. 41, 1915 (1970).
14. L. C. Feldman and J.W. Mayer, in Fundamentals of Surface and Thin Film Analysis (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1986), Chap. 6.
15. P. Segovia, E.G. Michel, and I.E. Onega, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3455 (1996).
16. A. Bogicevic and D. R. Jennison, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4050 (1999).
17. J.S. Moodera et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3029 (1999).