Understanding tunneling magnetoresistance during thermal annealing in MgO-based junctions with CoFeB electrodes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Wang, W G ^a,d   Ni, C ^a   Miao, G X ^b   Weiland, C ^a   Shah, L R ^a   Fan, X ^a   Parson, P ^a   Jordan Sweet, J ^c   Kou, X M ^a   Zhang, Y P ^a   Stearrett, R ^a   Nowak, E R ^a   Opila, R ^a   Moodera, J S ^b   Xiao, J Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77955215631     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.144406     Document Type: Article

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