AVS 53rd International Symposium
    Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures Wednesday Sessions

Session MI-WeA
Exchange Bias & TMR

Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 2:00 pm, Room 2006
Moderator: G.J. Mankey, University of Alabama


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2:00pm MI-WeA1 Invited Paper
A Comprehensive Study of Exchange Bias
I.K. Schuller, R. Morales, Z.-P. Li, C.-P. Li, I.V. Roshchin, S. Roy, S. Sinha, University of California, San Diego, M.J. Fitzsimmons, Los Alamos National Laboratory, X. Batlle, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, J.B. Kortright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, D. Altbir, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, J. Mejia-Lopez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, A. Romero, Unidad Queretaro Libramiento Norponiente, Mexico
2:40pm MI-WeA3
All Ferromagnetic Exchange Bias Systems
A. Berger, D.T. Margulies, E.E. Fullerton, Hitachi GST, S. Polisetty, X. He, Ch. Binek, University of Nebraska, O. Hovorka, G Friedman, Drexel University
3:00pm MI-WeA4
A Novel Scheme for Pinning Magnetic Layers in Current Perpendicular to the Plane Spin Valve Devices
C. Papusoi, Z. Tadisina, S. Gupta, H. Fujiwara, G.J. Mankey, P. LeClair, University of Alabama
3:20pm MI-WeA5 Invited Paper
Theory of Resonant Tunneling in Composite Fe/MgO/Fe Junctions with Nonmagnetic Interlayers
J. Mathon, City University, UK
4:00pm MI-WeA7
The Role of Interfacial Moments in High TMR MgO-based Structures
E. Negusse, A. Lussier, J. Dvorak, Y.U. Idzerda, Montana State University -- Bozeman, S.R. Shinde, Y. Nagamine, S. Furukawa, K. Tsunekawa, Canon-Anelva, Corporation
4:20pm MI-WeA8 Invited Paper
Tunnel Magnetoresistance Effect in Sputtered MTJs with MgO Barrier and Various Ferromagnetic Electrodes
J. Hayakawa, Hitachi Ltd. and Tohoku University, Japan, S. Ikeda, Y.M. Lee, R. Sasaki, T. Meguro, F. Matsukura, Tohoku University, Japan, H. Takahashi, Hitachi Ltd., Japan and Tohoku University, Japan, H. Ohno, Tohoku University, Japan