Fabrication and characterization of microstructured magnetic tunnel junction rings

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2766-2768

  Tsunoda, M ^e   Takahashi, M ^e   Kuo, C Y ^a   Horng, Lance ^a   Wu, J C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fabrication; magnetic force microscopy (MFM); magnetization reversal; magnetoresistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008045572     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.878868     Document Type: Article

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