| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:15AM - 11:27AM
 
 
 |  | N14.00001: Optimizing Co concentration in Co$_{x}$Fe$_{1-x}$/MgO/Co$_{x}$Fe$_{1-x}$ magnetic tunnel junctions to maximize tunneling magnetoresistance Jonathan Trinastic, Yan Wang, Hai-Ping Cheng
 
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:27AM - 11:39AM
 
 
 |  | N14.00002: Large Magnetoresistance of MnBi/Bi/MnBi Spin Valve Nabil Al-Aqtash, Khaldoun Tarawneh, Renat Sabirianov
 
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:39AM - 11:51AM
 
 
 |  | N14.00003: Self-Organized Defects of Half-Metallic Nanowires in MgO-Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Masayoshi Seike, Tetsuya Fukushima, Kazunori Sato, Hiroshi Katayama-Yoshida
 
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:51AM - 12:27PM
 
 
 |  | N14.00004: Mechanisms of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and interlayer exchange coupling in MgO-based tunnel junctions Invited Speaker: 
Mairbek Chshiev
 
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 12:27PM - 12:39PM
 
 
 |  | N14.00005: Point-contact study of soft magnetic CoSiBFeNb amorphous alloys Heidi Seinige, Cheng Wang, Valerii Tsoi, Maxim Tsoi
 
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 12:39PM - 12:51PM
 
 
 |  | N14.00006: Measurement of the transport spin polarization of Ag/Fe$_3$O$_4$ bilayers using point-contact Andreev reflection Michael Osofsky, Priyanga Jayathilaka, Casey W. Miller
 
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 12:51PM - 1:03PM
 
 
 |  | N14.00007: 3D Effect in Determination of Spin Polarization using Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy Jessica Gifford, Charles Snider, Jonny Martinez, Tingyong Chen
 
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:03PM - 1:39PM
 
 
 |  | N14.00008: Graphene-based magnetic tunnel junctions Invited Speaker: 
Enrique Cobas
 
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:39PM - 1:51PM
 
 
 |  | N14.00009: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with a Graphene Tunnel Barrier Wan Li, Daniel Ralph
 
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:51PM - 2:03PM
 
 
 |  | N14.00010: Magnetoresistance and negative differential resistance in Ni/Graphene/Ni vertical heterostructures driven by finite bias voltage: A first-principles study Kamal K. Saha, Anders Blom, Kristian S. Thygesen, Branislav K. Nikolic
 
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| Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:03PM - 2:15PM
 
 
 |  | N14.00011: Large spin accumulation due to spin-charge coupling across a break-junction Shuhan Chen, Han Zou, Siu-Tat Chui, Yi Ji
 
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