Organic multiferroic tunnel junctions with ferroelectric poly(vinylidene fluoride) barriers

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 599-603

  López Encarnación, Juan M ^a,c   Burton, J D ^b   Tsymbal, Evgeny Y ^b   Velev, Julian P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo   (Dominican Republic)

Author keywords

Electron tunneling; multiferroic tunnel junctions; organic ferroelectrics; organic tunnel junctions; spintronics

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL FLEXIBILITY; FERROELECTRIC POLARIZATION; FIRST PRINCIPLES METHOD; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; MAGNETIZATION CONFIGURATION; MODEL SYSTEM; MULTIFERROICS; NON-POLAR DIELECTRICS; NON-VOLATILE DATA; ORGANIC FERROELECTRICS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC SPINTRONICS; ORGANIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; PASSIVE ELEMENTS; POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE); POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; PRODUCTION COST; RESISTANCE STATE; SPIN RELAXATION; SPIN TRANSPORT; SPINTRONICS; TUNNELING SPIN POLARIZATION;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; MAGNETIC DEVICES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONVOLATILE STORAGE; POLARIZATION; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

NANOMATERIAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYVINYL DERIVATIVE; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROELECTRODES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYVINYLS; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 79851506254     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl103650b     Document Type: Article

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