Vertical spinal electronic device with large room temperature magnetoresistance

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2592-2594

  Ahmad, E ^a   Valavanis, A ^a   Claydon, J S ^a   Lu, Y X ^a   Xu, Y B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CPP geometry; Magnetoresistance; Spintronics

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC LOGIC DEVICES; MAGNETORESISTANCE;

AMR EFFECTS; CPP GEOMETRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPINTRONICS;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 27744483405     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.854797     Document Type: Article

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