Magnetoresistance and exchange coupling in a ferromagnetic tunnel junction with ferromagnetic layers of finite thickness

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1090-1096

  Zhang, Xiangdong ^a   Li, Bo Zang ^a   Zhang, Wushou ^a   Pu, Fu Cho ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 0142194903     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.1090     Document Type: Article

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