Structure of epitaxial L10-FePt/MgO perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Kohn, Amit ^a   Tal, Nadav ^a   Elkayam, Ayala ^a   Kovàcs, Andras ^b   Li, Dalai ^c   Wang, Shouguo ^c   Ghannadzadeh, Saman ^d   Hesjedal, Thorsten ^d   Ward, Roger C C ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION-CORRECTED SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; ANTIPHASE BOUNDARIES; INTERFACE STRUCTURES; LATTICE PLANE; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; MGO; MGO BARRIER; SPIN DEPENDENT TUNNELING; STRUCTURAL STUDIES; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ATOMS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MAGNETOCRYSTALLINE ANISOTROPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

MAGNETIC DEVICES;

EID: 84874256096     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4791576     Document Type: Article

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