Bias current effects on the magnetoresistance of a ferromagnetic- semiconductor-ferromagnetic trilayer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Bala Kumar, S ^b   Tan, S G ^b   Jalil, M B A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

BALLISTIC TRANSMISSION; FERROMAGNETIC TRILAYERS; SPIN DRIFT DIFFUSION TRANSPORT;

BIAS CURRENTS;

EID: 34047275932     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2719156     Document Type: Article

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