Oxygen stoichiometry and instability in aluminum oxide tunnel barrier layers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 16, 2005, Pages

  Tan, E ^a   Mather, P G ^a   Perrella, A C ^a   Read, J C ^a   Buhrman, R A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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EID: 28744444903     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.161401     Document Type: Article

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