Local impurity-assisted conductance in magnetic tunnel junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 21, 2001, Pages

  Tsymbal, E Y ^a   Pettifor, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRONICS; MAGNETISM; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL;

EID: 0035578289     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.212401     Document Type: Article

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