Real space first-principles derived semiempirical pseudopotentials applied to tunneling magnetoresistance

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Bevan, K H ^a,b,c   Low, Tony ^a   Guo, H ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; BARRIER WIDTHS; BASIS SETS; BONDING INTERFACES; BULK PARAMETERS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; INTERFACE STATE; LOCAL DENSITY OF STATE; LOCAL SPIN DENSITY APPROXIMATION; MAGNESIUM OXIDES; NANO SCALE; ORBITAL SPACE; PSEUDOPOTENTIAL; PSEUDOPOTENTIALS; REAL-SPACE; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; TIGHT BINDING; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTANCE;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MAGNESIUM; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 67249153097     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3123204     Document Type: Article

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