Effects of a thin Mg layer on the structural and magnetoresistance properties of CoFeBMgOCoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Lu, Y ^a   Deranlot, C ^a   Vaurs A ^a   Petroff, F ^a   George, J M ^a   Zheng, Y ^b   Demailles, D ^b  

^a UNITÉ MIXTE DE PHYSIQUE CNRS THALES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAGNETORESISTANCE; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

CRYSTALLINE TEXTURES; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

MAGNESIUM;

EID: 36549079990     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2819530     Document Type: Article

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