Spin-polarized electron tunneling in bcc FeCo/MgO/FeCo(001) magnetic tunnel junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Bonell, F ^a   Hauet, T ^a   Andrieu, S ^a   Bertran, F ^b   Le Fevre P ^b   Calmels, L ^c   Tejeda, A ^a,b   Montaigne, F ^a   Warot Fonrose, B ^c   Belhadji, B ^c   Nicolaou, A ^b   Taleb Ibrahimi, A ^b  

^a INSTITUT JEAN LAMOUR   (France)

^b SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ANGLE-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION; CHEMICAL DISORDER; CO CONCENTRATIONS; CO CONTENT; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; EMPTYSTATE; FREE SURFACES; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; MAGNETO-TRANSPORT MEASUREMENT; MGO; SPIN STATE; SPIN-POLARIZED ELECTRONS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

MAGNETIC DEVICES; PHOTOEMISSION;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84860266973     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.176602     Document Type: Article

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