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<jats:p>Magnetic tunnel junctions were prepared with the Heusler compounds Co2FeAl, Co2FeSi, and Co2MnSi as the soft magnetic electrode. The Co2MnSi electrodes had a multilayer design that used either the Co2FeAl or the Co2FeSi compound as a buffer material. Pinned Co-Fe was used as the hard reference electrode. The electronic transport characteristics were analyzed by tunneling spectroscopy. The dependence of sample properties on the buffer material was of interest, especially the gap in the minority density of states of the Heusler electrode. The temperature dependence of the transport properties was also investigated.</jats:p>