Barrier Height and Film Thickness Dependence of the TMR

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3444-3455

  Utsumi, Yasuhiro ^a   Shimizu, Yukihiro ^a   Miyazaki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barrier height dependence; Bias voltage and temperature dependence; Film thickness dependence; Keldysh Green's function; Spin dependent tunneling; TMR

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033268927     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.68.3444     Document Type: Article

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