Room temperature extraordinary magnetoresistance of nonmagnetic narrow-gap semiconductor/metal composites: Application to read-head sensors for ultrahigh-density magnetic recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 89-94

  Solin, S A ^a   Hines, D R ^a   Tsai, J S ^b   Pashkin, Yu A ^b   Chung, S J ^c,d   Goel, N ^c   Santos, M B ^c  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Extraordinary magnetoresistance; Inhomogeneities; InSb; Nonmagnetic narrow gap semiconductors

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETIC HEADS; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SENSORS;

TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTANCE (TMR);

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0036236863     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.988917     Document Type: Article

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