Interface roughness effects on the performance of magnetic tunnel junctions

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 515, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 3941-3945

  Zhang, Zongzhi ^a   Zhao, Hui ^a   Ren, Yang ^a   Ma, B ^a   Jin, Q Y ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Interface roughness; Magnetic tunnel junctions; Magnetoresistance; Thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DEPOSITION; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

FERROMAGNETIC INTERLAYER COUPLING; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; PLASMA TREATMENTS;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 33846933093     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2006.09.033     Document Type: Article

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