Inverse tunnel magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions with an Fe4 N electrode

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Sunaga, Kazuyuki ^a   Tsunoda, Masakiyo ^a   Komagaki, Kojiro ^b   Uehara, Yuji ^b   Takahashi, Migaku ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; OPTIMIZATION;

COHERENT TUNNELING; INVERSE TUNNEL MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS (MTJ); TUNNEL MAGNETORESISTANCE (TMR) EFFECTS;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 34547366513     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2753576     Document Type: Article

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