Impurity-Assisted Tunneling Magnetoresistance under a Weak Magnetic Field

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 14, 2014, Pages

  Txoperena, Oihana ^a   Song, Yang ^b   Qing, Lan ^c   Gobbi, Marco ^a,d   Hueso, Luis E ^a,e   Dery, Hanan ^b,c   Casanova, Fèlix ^a,e  

^a CIC NANOGUNE   (Spain)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETORESISTANCE;

ELECTRICAL SPIN INJECTION; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; FERROMAGNETIC ELECTRODES; IMPURITY-ASSISTED TUNNELING; INSULATING LAYERS; SPIN-ACCUMULATIONS; TUNNELING CURRENT; WEAK MAGNETIC FIELDS;

TUNNELLING MAGNETORESISTANCE;

EID: 84908032126     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.146601     Document Type: Article

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