Giant tunnelling magnetoresistance at room temperature with MgO (100) tunnel barriers

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 862-867

  Parkin, Stuart S P ^a   Kaiser, Christian ^a   Panchula, Alex ^a   Rice, Philip M ^a   Hughes, Brian ^a   Samant, Mahesh ^a   Yang, See Hun ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FERMI LEVEL; MAGNESIA; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SUBSTRATES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

SPIN POLARIZATION; TUNNEL BARRIERS; TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTANCE (TMR); TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY;

GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE;

MAGNESIUM OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTERS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; MAGNETICS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 10044225881     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1256     Document Type: Article

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