Review of the physics of magnetoresistive readers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2465-2471

  Heinonen, Olle G ^a   Singleton, Eric W ^a   Karr, Brian W ^a   Gao, Zheng ^a   Cho, Hae Seok ^a   Chen, Yonghua ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

MTJ; Spin transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350119572     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2002373     Document Type: Article

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