The effect of injection layers on a room temperature organic spin valve

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1307-1310

  Dhandapani, Dhana ^a   Morley, Nicola A ^a   Gibbs, Mike R J ^a   Kreouzis, Theo ^b   Shakya, Pabrita ^b   Desai, Pratik ^b   Gillin, William P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interface layers; Magnetoresistance (MR); Organic semiconductors; Spintronics

Indexed keywords

AMINES; BINARY ALLOYS; COBALT ALLOYS; EFFICIENCY; IRON ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SHIMS; SPIN POLARIZATION; SPINTRONICS;

8-HYDROXYQUINOLINE; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; FERROMAGNETIC ELECTRODES; INTERFACE LAYER; ROOM TEMPERATURE MAGNETORESISTANCE; SPIN-POLARIZED CONDUCTION; SPIN-VALVE DEVICES;

MAGNETORESISTANCE;

EID: 77952861227     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2043818     Document Type: Article

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