Increase in spin injection efficiency of a CoFeMgO (100) tunnel spin injector with thermal annealing

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Wang, R ^a,b   Jiang, X ^a,b   Shelby, R M ^a,b   MacFarlane, R M ^a,b   Parkin, S S P ^a,b   Bank, S R ^b   Harris, J S ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DETECTORS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

COFEMGO; OPTICAL DETECTORS; TUNNEL SPIN INJECTORS;

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

EID: 18644366822     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1787896     Document Type: Article

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