Structural characterization and temperature dependence of tunnel magnetoresistance in epitaxial Fe/MgO/Fe junctions

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2562-2565

  Wang, S G ^a,b   Ward, R C C ^a   Du, G X ^b   Han, X F ^b   Wang, C ^a   Kohn, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Magnetic disorder; Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs); Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649228861     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2002402     Document Type: Article

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