Proposal and Analysis of a Ferromagnetic Triple-Barrier Resonant-Tunneling Spin Filter

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2809-2811

  Uemura, Tetsuya ^a   Marukame, Takao ^a   Yamamoto, Masafumi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GaMnAs; Resonant tunneling; Spin filter; Spin splitting

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; MAGNETIC FILTERS; RESONANT TUNNELING; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

SPIN SPLITTING;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0141953093     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.815719     Document Type: Article

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