Highly spin-polarized tunneling in fully epitaxial Co2Cr 0.6Fe0.4Al/MgO/Co50Fe50 magnetic tunnel junctions with exchange biasing

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Marukame, Takao ^a   Ishikawa, Takayuki ^a   Hakamata, Shinya ^a   Matsuda, Ken Ichi ^a   Uemura, Tetsuya ^a   Yamamoto, Masafumi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT ALLOYS; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FERRIMAGNETIC MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETORESISTANCE; THIN FILMS;

MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS (MTJ); SPIN POLARIZATION; TUNNEL MAGNETORESISTANCE (TMR);

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 33846165098     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2428412     Document Type: Article

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