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Tunnel Junctions

Tunnel Junction is a specialized type of P-N junction semiconductor device in which electron tunneling through a thin potential barrier enables charge transport, distinguished from conventional junctions by its reliance on quantum mechanical tunneling rather than thermal diffusion for current conduction.

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Tunnel Junction

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Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices

Vincent Mourik, Kun Zuo, Sergey Frolov et al. · Science · 2012 · 4.2K citations · Full text

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Giant room-temperature magnetoresistance in single-crystal Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions

Shinji Yuasa, Taro Nagahama, Akio Fukushima et al. · Nature Materials · 2004 · 3.3K citations

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Tunnel field-effect transistors as energy-efficient electronic switches

Adrian M. Ionescu, Heike Riel · Nature · 2011 · 2.9K citations · Full text

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Field-Effect Tunneling Transistor Based on Vertical Graphene Heterostructures

L. Britnell, Roman Gorbachev, R. Jalil et al. · Science · 2012 · 2.6K citations · Full text

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Giant magnetic tunneling effect in Fe/Al2O3/Fe junction

T. Miyazaki, N. Tezuka · Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials · 1995 · 1.9K citations

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  1. SY
    Shinji Yuasa

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

    82 publications · 11.6K citations

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  2. EY
    Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

    University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States

    55 publications · 5.4K citations

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  3. PP
    P. P. Freitas

    Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal

    85 publications · 3.3K citations

    34

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  4. BD
    B. Diény

    CEA Grenoble, France

    67 publications · 4.2K citations

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  5. HK
    Hitoshi Kubota

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

    66 publications · 6.1K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    71 h-index

    1.8K publications

    129.6K citations

  2. Tohoku University

    Sendai, Japan

    64 h-index

    1.1K publications

    74.8K citations

  3. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

    Tsukuba, Japan

    51 h-index

    607 publications

    64.4K citations

  4. Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

    Paris, France

    49 h-index

    605 publications

    39.2K citations

  5. Université Paris-Sud

    Orsay, France

    47 h-index

    525 publications

    63.4K citations

  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    46 h-index

    253 publications

    23.3K citations

  7. Laboratoire Albert Fert

    Palaiseau, France

    44 h-index

    469 publications

    60.7K citations

  8. IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center

    Yorktown Heights, United States

    44 h-index

    315 publications

    32.7K citations

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  1. Applied Physics Letters

    1K publications · 55K citations

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  2. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 278 publications · 31K citations

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  3. Journal of Applied Physics

    630 publications · 25.5K citations

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  4. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

    PRB · 296 publications · 15.1K citations

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  5. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

    142 publications · 8.6K citations

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