Disorder scattering in magnetic tunnel junctions: Theory of nonequilibrium vertex correction

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Ke, Youqi ^a   Xia, Ke ^b   Guo, Hong ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN'S FUNCTION; NANOELECTRONICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; QUANTUM THEORY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DISORDER SCATTERING; FIRST PRINCIPLES THEORY; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; NONEQUILIBRIUM VERTEX CORRECTION;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 42549160944     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.166805     Document Type: Article

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