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Statistical properties of currents flowing through tunnel junctions

Materials Science 2009-11-07 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the statistical properties arising from the broadness of the distribution of tunnel currents in metal-insulator-metal tunnel junctions. Experimental current inhomogeneities can be modelled by a lognormal distribution and the size dependence of the tunnel current is modified at small sizes by the effect of broad distributions.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0205473,
  title  = {Statistical properties of currents flowing through tunnel junctions},
  author = {V. Da Costa and M. Romeo and F. Bardou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0205473},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in J. Magn. Magn. Mater., Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism (June 20-24, 2002), shortened, eq. (4) corrected

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