Use of voltage pulses to detect spin-polarized tunneling

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1437-1439

  Yamada, T K ^a,b   Bischoff, M M J ^a   Mizoguchi, T ^b   Van Kempen, H ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GAKUSHUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATING TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; IRON; MAGNETIZATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

SPIN-POLARIZED TUNNELING;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 0037416643     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1556958     Document Type: Article

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