Bias dependent inversion of tunneling magnetoresistance in FeGaAsFe tunnel junctions

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Moser, J ^a   Zenger, M ^a   Gerl, C ^a   Schuh, D ^a   Meier, R ^a   Chen, P ^a   Bayreuther, G ^a   Wegscheider, W ^a   Weiss, D ^a   Lai, C H ^b   Huang, R T ^c   Kosuth, M ^d   Ebert, H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPIN INJECTION EXPERIMENTS; TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTANCE (TMR);

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 33750177795     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2364163     Document Type: Article

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