Kinetics of pinhole nucleation and growth in magnetic tunnel junctions

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 7017-7019

  Shang, Changhe ^a   Chen, Yingjian ^a   Moon, Ki Seok ^a  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; NUCLEATION;

PINHOLE NUCLEATION;

MAGNETIC DEVICES;

EID: 0037638749     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1555291     Document Type: Article

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