Spin tunneling in junctions with disordered ferromagnets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Paluskar, P V ^a   Attema, J J ^b   De Wijs, G A ^b   Fiddy, S ^c   Snoeck, E ^d   Kohlhepp, J T ^a   Swagten, H J M ^a   De Groot, R A ^b   Koopmans, B ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d CEMES CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETISM; SPIN POLARIZATION; TERNARY ALLOYS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS; FERROMAGNETS; TUNNELING SPIN POLARIZATION (TSP);

MAGNETOELECTRONICS;

EID: 38949117081     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.057205     Document Type: Article

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