Tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance driven by resonant surface states: First-principles calculations on an Fe(001) surface

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Chantis, Athanasios N ^a   Belashchenko, Kirill D ^b   Tsymbal, Evgeny Y ^b   Van Schilfgaarde, Mark ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); IRON; MAGNETIZATION;

FIRST PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING; TUNNELING ANISOTROPIC MAGNETORESISTANCE;

MAGNETORESISTANCE;

EID: 33846524810     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.046601     Document Type: Article

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