Giant room-temperature magnetoresistance in single-crystal Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 868-871

  Yuasa, Shinji ^a,b   Nagahama, Taro ^a   Fukushima, Akio ^a   Suzuki, Yoshishige ^a   Ando, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); FERMI LEVEL; IRON; MAGNESIA; QUANTUM THEORY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

COHERENT TUNNELING; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS (MTJ); TUNNEL BARRIERS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE;

IRON; MAGNESIUM OXIDE;

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

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

EID: 10044257857     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1257     Document Type: Article

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