Temperature and angular dependences of dynamic spin-polarized resonant tunneling in CoFeBMgONiFe junctions

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Miller, Casey W ^a   Schuller, Ivan K ^b   Dave, R W ^c   Slaughter, J M ^c   Zhou, Yan ^d   Åkerman, Johan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; RESONANT TUNNELING; SPIN POLARIZATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

THERMAL SMEARING; TRAPEZOIDAL TUNNEL BARRIER;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 42149136773     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2831393     Document Type: Article

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