Relationship of tunnelling magnetoresistance and buried-layer densities of states as derived from standing-wave excited photoemission

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Yang, S H ^a   Mun, B S ^b   Mannella, N ^b,e   Nambu, A ^b,f   Sell, B C ^b,c   Ritchey, S B ^b,c   Salmassi, F ^b   Shick, A ^d   Parkin, S S P ^a   Fadley, ^b,c  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); FERMI LEVEL; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MULTILAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLARIZATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AMORPHOUS CHARACTERS; DENSITIES OF STATES (DOS); MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; X-RAY PHOTOEMISSION TECHNIQUES;

PHOTOEMISSION;

EID: 33646339395     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/18/19/L05     Document Type: Article

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