Development of epitaxial nitride-based bilayers for magnetic tunnel junctions

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2709-2711

  Borsa, D M ^a   Grachev, S ^a   Boerma, D O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Copper nitrides; Epitaxial layers; Iron nitrides; Magnetic tunnel junction; MBE

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

MAGNETIC FILMS;

EID: 0036762596     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.803156     Document Type: Article

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