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Nature Materials 4, 9 - 10 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nmat1296

Spin electronics: Thin skins for magnetic sensitivity

Michael Coey1

  1. Michael Coey is at the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN), Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. e-mail: jcoey@tcd.ie


Understanding and tuning the insulating tunnel barrier layer in magnetic tunnel junctions is key to developing commercial spintronic devices. A naturally self-assembled insulating layer on bilayer manganites provides a highly sensitive model system.

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