Temperature and bias-voltage dependent transport in magnetic tunnel junctions with low energy Ar-ion irradiated barriers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Schmalhorst, J ^a   Reiss, G ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ENERGY; IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THICKNESS;

EID: 0742287766     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.224437     Document Type: Article

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