Structural and electronic properties of magnetic tunnel junction from first principles

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 3952-3959

  Oleinik, I ^a   Tsymbal, E Yu ^a   Pettifor, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001590166     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.62.3952     Document Type: Article

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