Tunneling hot spots and heating in magnetic tunnel junctions

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 95, Issue 11 II, 2004, Pages 6783-6785

  Sousa, R C ^a   Prejbeanu, I L ^a   Stanescu, D ^a   Rodmacq, B ^a   Redon, O ^a   Dieny, B ^a   Wang, Jianguo ^b   Freitas, P P ^b  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b INESC   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEATING; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BARRIER SURFACES; DC MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; HOT SPOT DENSITIES; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 2942683240     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1667413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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