Exchange-biased magnetic tunnel junctions and application to nonvolatile magnetic random access memory (invited)

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 8 II B, 1999, Pages 5828-5833

  Parkin, S S P ^a   Roche, K P ^a   Samant, M G ^a   Rice, P M ^a   Beyers, R B ^a   Scheuerlein, R E ^b   O'Sullivan, E J ^c   Brown, S L ^c   Bucchigano, J ^c   Abraham, D W ^c   Lu, Yu ^c   Rooks, M ^c   Trouilloud, P L ^c   Wanner, R A ^c   Gallagher, W J ^c  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 4143119129     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.369932     Document Type: Article

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