Disturbance of tunneling coherence by oxygen vacancy in epitaxial Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Miao, G X ^a   Park, Y J ^a,b   Moodera, J S ^a   Seibt, M ^c   Eilers, G ^c   Munzenberg M ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; EXCAVATION; GALVANOMAGNETIC EFFECTS; HEALTH; LEAD; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NONMETALS; OXYGEN; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); TUNNELS; VACANCIES; WAVEGUIDE JUNCTIONS;

(E ,3E) PROCESS; AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); CHARACTERISTIC LENGTHS; EVANESCENT WAVES (EW); JUNCTION RESISTANCES; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION (MTJ); NON-COHERENT; SCATTERING PROCESSES; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCES; TUNNEL MAGNETORESISTANCE (TMR); TUNNELING PROCESSES; WENTZEL-KRAMERS-BRILOUIN (WKB) APPROXIMATION;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 45749136427     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.246803     Document Type: Article

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