Junction resistance, tunnel magnetoresistance ratio, and spin-transfer torque in Zn-doped magnetic tunnel junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Dongping ^a,b   Han, Xiufeng ^b   Guo, Hong ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84863330553     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.245436     Document Type: Article

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