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Exchange-biased magnetic tunnel junctions and application to nonvolatile magnetic random access memory

Parkin et al., 1999

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8179806240120141819
Author
Parkin S
Roche K
Samant M
Rice P
Beyers R
Scheuerlein R
O’sullivan E
Brown S
Bucchigano J
Abraham D
Lu Y
Rooks M
Trouilloud P
Wanner R
Gallagher W
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Journal of Applied Physics

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Exchange biased magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structures are shown to have useful properties for forming magnetic memory storage elements in a novel cross-point architecture. MTJ elements have been developed which exhibit very large magnetoresistive …
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