Tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance-based devices

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 977-983

  Gould, Charles ^a   Schmidt, Georg ^a   Molenkamp, Laurens W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic semiconductors; Spintronic devices; Tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETORESISTANCE;

FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR; TUNNELING ANISOTROPIC MAGNETORESISTANCE;

MAGNETOELECTRONICS;

EID: 34247859036     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2007.894938     Document Type: Article

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