Enhanced magnetotransport at high bias in quasimagnetic tunnel junctions with EuS spin-filter barriers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Nagahama, T ^a,b   Santos, T S ^a   Moodera, J S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BIAS CURRENTS; COBALT; CONDUCTION BANDS; ELECTRODES; EUROPIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETORESISTANCE;

FOWLER-NORDHEIM TUNNELING; QUASIMAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 34547300556     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.016602     Document Type: Article

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