Half-metallic interface and coherent tunneling in Co2 YZ/MgO/ Co2 YZ (YZ=MnSi,CrAl) magnetic tunnel junctions: A first-principles study

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Miura, Yoshio ^a   Uchida, Hirohisa ^a   Oba, Yoshihiro ^a   Abe, Kazutaka ^a   Shirai, Masafumi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 50449091670     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.064416     Document Type: Article

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