Theoretical studies on spin-dependent conductance in FePt/MgO/FePt(001) magnetic tunnel junctions

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2585-2588

  Taniguchi, Yujiro ^a   Miura, Yoshio ^a   Abe, Kazutaka ^a   Shirai, Masafumi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

First principles calculation; L11 ordered alloy; Spintronics; Tunnel magnetoresistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955111530     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2002515     Document Type: Article

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