Magnetic tunnel junctions

Springer Tracts in Modern Physics

Volumn 227, Issue , 2007, Pages 291-333

  Reiss, Günter ^a   Schmalhorst, Jan ^a   Thomas, Andre ^a   Hütten, Andreas ^a   Yuasa, Shinji ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

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EID: 35649018237     PISSN: 00813869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73462-8_6     Document Type: Article

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