CPP giant magnetoresistance of NiFeCo/Cu/CoFe/Cu multilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 924-926

  Bussmann, K ^a   Cheng, S F ^a   Prinz, G A ^b   Hu, Y ^b   Gutmann, R ^c   Wang, D ^c   Beech, R ^d   Zhu, J ^d  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NVE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical mechanical polishing; CPP GMR; Current flow modeling; Magnetic multilayers; Magnetoelectronic devices

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL POLISHING; COBALT ALLOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPPER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; METALLIC FILMS; METALLIC SUPERLATTICES; NICKEL ALLOYS; OHMIC CONTACTS;

CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING; CURRENT PERPENDICULAR TO PLANE (CPP) MAGNETROTRANSPORT;

MAGNETIC FILMS;

EID: 0032120806     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706313     Document Type: Article

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