Magnetic-field-modulated resonant tunneling in ferromagnetic-insulator- nonmagnetic junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Song, Yang ^a   Dery, Hanan ^a,b  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

ANDERSON IMPURITY MODEL; COULOMB CORRELATIONS; ELECTRICAL SPIN INJECTION; MAGNETIC LEADS; QUANTUM RATE EQUATIONS; SPIN INTERACTION; SPIN-ACCUMULATIONS; TUNNEL CURRENTS;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 84905043765     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.047205     Document Type: Article

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