Determination of the potential barrier at the metal/oxide interface in a specular spin valve structure with nano-oxide layers using electron holography

Chinese Physics Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1480-1482

  Wang, Yan Guo ^a   Shen, Feng ^a   Zhang, Ze ^a   Cai, Jian Wang ^a   Lai, Wu Yan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETORESISTANCE; METALS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

FIELD EMISSION GUNS; LOCAL POTENTIALS; METAL OXIDE INTERFACE; NANO-OXIDE-LAYERS; OFF-AXIS ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECULAR SPIN VALVE; SPIN VALVE STRUCTURE; SPIN-POLARIZED ELECTRONS;

TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0036796757     PISSN: 0256307X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/19/10/325     Document Type: Article

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