Highly efficient room-temperature tunnel spin injector using CoFe/MgO(001)

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 111-120

  Jiang, Xin ^a   Wang, Roger ^a   Shelby, Robert M ^a   Parkin, Stuart S P ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT ALLOYS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRONS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNESIA; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR SPINTRONICS; SPIN INJECTION; SPIN POLARIZATION;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 32944464051     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.501.0111     Document Type: Review

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