MgO-based epitaxial magnetic tunnel junctions using Fe-V electrodes

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3467-3471

  Bonell, Frederic ^a   Andrieu, Stéphane ^a   Bertran, Frangois ^b   Lefevre, Patrick ^b   Ibrahimi, Amina Taleb ^b   Snoeck, Etienne ^c   Tiusan, Coriolan Viorel ^a   Montaigne, François ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN LAMOUR   (France)

^b SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

^c CEMES CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Dislocation; Epitaxial magnetic tunnel junction; Fe V alloy; MgO; Spin polarization

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); ELECTRODES; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IRON ALLOYS; IRON COMPOUNDS; IRON METALLOGRAPHY; MAGNESIA; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETISM; OXIDE MINERALS; SPIN POLARIZATION; VANADIUM METALLOGRAPHY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BARRIER QUALITY; CRYSTALLINE QUALITY; DISLOCATIONS DENSITIES; FE-V ALLOY; MAGNETIC ELECTRODES; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; MGO BARRIER; SPIN-POLARIZED;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 70350594601     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2022644     Document Type: Article

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