Electronic Resource
Woodbury, NY
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Applied Physics Letters
79 (2001), S. 1655-1657
ISSN:
1077-3118
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
We present tunneling experiments on Fe(001)/MgO(20 Å)/FeCo(001) single-crystal epitaxial junctions of high quality grown by sputtering and laser ablation. Tunnel magnetoresistance measurements give 60% at 30 K, to be compared with 13% obtained recently on (001)-oriented Fe/amorphous-Al2O3/FeCo tunnel junctions. This difference demonstrates that the spin polarization of tunneling electrons is not directly related to the density of states of the free metal surface—Fe(001) in this case—but depends on the actual electronic structure of the entire electrode/barrier system. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1404125
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