Spin dependent tunneling spectroscopy in single crystalline bcc-Co/MgO/bcc-Co(001) junctions

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Nishioka, Shingo ^a   Matsumoto, Rie ^a   Tomita, Hiroyuki ^a   Nozaki, Takayuki ^a   Suzuki, Yoshishige ^a   Itoh, Hiroyoshi ^b   Yuasa, Shinji ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; EPITAXIAL LAYERS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

BARRIER LAYERS; CONDUCTANCE SPECTRUM; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SPIN-DEPENDENT TUNNELING;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 52949143823     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2988647     Document Type: Article

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