Conductance, magnetoresistance, and interlayer exchange coupling in magnetic tunnel junctions with nonmagnetic metallic spacers and finite thick ferromagnetic layers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 14959-14965

  Zhang, Wu Shou ^a   Li, Bo Zang ^a   Li, Yun ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 0001687346     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.58.14959     Document Type: Article

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