The importance of Fe surface states for magnetic tunnel junction based spintronic devices

Modern Physics Letters B

Volumn 22, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 2529-2551

  Chantis, Athanasios N ^a   Belashchenko, Kirill D ^b   Tsymbal, Evgeny Y ^b   Sus, Inna V ^a,c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical injection of spin polarized carriers; First principles electron transport methods; Spin polarized transport in semiconductors; Spin transport through interfaces; Spintronics; Tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 55949112171     PISSN: 02179849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217984908017060     Document Type: Short Survey

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