High negative tunneling magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions with a ferrimagnetic CoFe-Gd electrode and a CoFe interface layer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Kaiser, Christian ^a   Parkin, Stuart S P ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COFE INTERFACE LAYERS; FERRIMAGNETIC COFE-GD ELECTRODES; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

ELECTRODES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETORESISTANCE; RESONANT TUNNELING; TRANSITION METALS;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33645143290     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2186107     Document Type: Article

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