Vacuum-tunneling magnetoresistance: The role of spin-polarized surface states

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 124-126

  Wiesendanger, R ^a   Bode, M ^a   Getzlaff, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; GALLIUM; IRON; MAGNETORESISTANCE; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

VACUUM TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTANCE (VTMR);

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 0032621679     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.124296     Document Type: Article

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