CoFe alloy as middle layer for strong spin dependent quantum well resonant tunneling in MgO double barrier magnetic tunnel junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Liu, R S ^a   Yang, See Hun ^a   Jiang, Xin ^a   Zhang, X G ^b   Rettner, Charles ^a   Gao, Li ^a   Topuria, Teya ^a   Rice, Philip M ^a   Zhang, Weifeng ^a   Canali, C M ^c   Parkin, Stuart S P ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84872965888     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.024411     Document Type: Article

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