"all-Heusler alloy" current-perpendicular-to-plane giant magnetoresistance

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 22, 2009, Pages

  Nikolaev, Konstantin ^a   Kolbo, Paul ^a   Pokhil, Taras ^a   Peng, Xilin ^a   Chen, Yonghua ^a   Ambrose, Thomas ^b   Mryasov, Oleg ^b,c  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CPP-GMR; CURRENT-PERPENDICULAR-TO-PLANE GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; FULL HEUSLER ALLOY; HARD DISK DRIVE; HEUSLER ALLOYS; MATERIALS SYSTEMS; MODELING RESULTS; SPIN STAND; SPIN-VALVE CONFIGURATIONS; TRACK RECORDINGS;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HARD DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; MATERIALS TESTING; SPIN DYNAMICS;

GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE;

EID: 66749182728     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3126962     Document Type: Article

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