Selective oxidation of an individual layer in a magnetic tunnel junction through the use of thermodynamic control

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Ladwig, Peter F ^a   Yang, J Joshua ^b   Yang, Ying ^b   Chang, Y Austin ^b   Liu, Feng ^c   Pant, Bharat B ^c   Schultz, Allan E ^c  

^a Hutchinson Technology Incorporated   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; NANOSCALE DEVICES; TUNNEL BARRIER OXIDE; ULTRATHIN METAL LAYERS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION; THERMODYNAMICS; THIN FILMS;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 23944462437     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2007863     Document Type: Article

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