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We theoretically investigate tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) devices, which are probing the spin-momentum coupled nature of surface states of the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$. Theoretical calculations are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-29 Matthias Götte , Tomi Paananen , Günter Reiss , Thomas Dahm

The tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) of F/O/F magnetic junctions, (F's are ferromagnetic layers and O is an oxide spacer) in the presence of magnetic impurities within the barrier, is investigated. We assume that magnetic couplings exist both…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Vedyayev , D. Bagrets , A. Bagrets , B. Dieny

While the effects of lattice mismatch-induced strain, mechanical strain, as well as the intrinsic strain of thin films are sometimes detrimental, resulting in mechanical deformation and failure, strain can also be usefully harnessed for…

Tunneling Magnetoresistance between two ferrromagnets is an issue of fundamental importance in spintronics. In this work, we show that tunneling magnetoresistance can also emerge in junctions composed of ferromagnets and time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

Recently, it has been shown that magnetic tunnel junctions with thin MgO tunnel barriers exhibit extraordinarily high tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) values at room temperature1, 2. However, the physics of spin dependent tunneling through…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Hyunsoo Yang , See-Hun Yang , Stuart Parkin

We study the conductance oscillation of an antiferromagnetic layer tunnel junction composed of antiferromagnetic topological insulators (MTIs) such as MnBi$_{2}$Te$_{4}$. In presence of an in-plane magnetic field, we find that the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Sang-Jun Choi , Hai-Peng Sun , Björn Trauzettel

Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) based on van der Waals (vdW) magnetic layers has been found to present excellent tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) property, which has great potential applications in field sensing, non-volatile magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 X. X. Ren , B. Liu , Xian Zhang , Ping Li , Zhi-Xin Guo

Heavy metals with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) have been employed to generate spin current to control the magnetization dynamics by spin-orbit torque (SOT). Magnetic tunnel junction based on SOT (SOT-MTJ) is a promising application with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Jiaqi Zhou , Weisheng Zhao , Kaihua Cao , Shouzhong Peng , Zilu Wang , Arnaud Bournel

As an unconventional magnet, altermagnetism attracts great interest in condensed matter physics and applies a new research platform for the spintronics. Since the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) effect is an important research aspect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Yu-Fei Sun , Yue Mao , Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

Direct tunneling in ferromagnetic junctions is compared with impurity-assisted, surface state assisted, and inelastic contributions to a tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR). Theoretically calculated direct tunneling in iron group systems…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Bratkovsky

We propose the two-band s-d model to describe theoretically a diffuse regime of the spin-dependent electron transport in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ's) of the form F/O/F where F's are 3d transition metal ferromagnetic layers and O is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Bagrets , A. Bagrets , A. Vedyayev , B. Dieny

The universal oscillation of the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) ratio as a function of the insulating barrier thickness in crystalline magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) is a long-standing unsolved problem in condensed matter physics. To…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 Keisuke Masuda , Thomas Scheike , Hiroaki Sukegawa , Yusuke Kozuka , Seiji Mitani , Yoshio Miura

Magnetic phase transition tunnel magnetoresistance (MPT-TMR) effect with a single magnetic electrode has been investigated by first-principles calculations. The calculations show that the MPT-TMR of FeRh/MgO/Cu tunnel junction can be as…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-02 Jia Zhang , X. Z. Chen , C. Song , J. F. Feng , H. X. Wei , Jing-Tao Lü

Using the spin-polarized tunneling model and taking into account the basic physics of ferromagnetic semiconductors, we study the temperature dependence of the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in the diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Pin Lyu , Kyungsun Moon

We theoretically study the spin-dependent transport in a ferromagnet/super- conductor/ferromagnet double tunnel junction. The tunneling current in the antiferromagnetic alignment of the magnetizations gives rise to a spin imbalance in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Takahashi , H. Imamura , S. Maekawa

We investigate spin-dependent conductance across a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) including a ferromagnetic insulating barrier. The MTJ consists of two half-metallic ferromagnetic La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) manganites as electrodes and La2NiMnO6…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 M. Abbasi Eskandari , S. Ghotb , P. Fournier

The effects of the spin-orbit interaction on the tunneling magnetoresistance of ferromagnet/semiconductor/normal metal tunnel junctions are investigated. Analytical expressions for the tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR) are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-06 Alex Matos-Abiague , Jaroslav Fabian

We theoretically study the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect in (111)-oriented junctions Co/MgO/Co(111) and Ni/MgO/Ni(111). The Co-based junction is shown to have a TMR ratio over 2000$\%$, which is one order higher than that of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-08 Keisuke Masuda , Hiroyoshi Itoh , Yoshio Miura

The effect of spin relaxation on tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) in a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (FM/SC/FM) double tunnel junction is theoretically studied. The spin accumulation in SC is determined by balancing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Saburo Takahashi , Taro Yamashita , Hiroshi Imamura , Sadamichi Maekawa

We performed a systematic analysis of the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) effect in single grain boundary junctions formed in epitaxial La(2/3)Ca(1/3)MnO(3) films deposited on SrTiO(3) bicrystals. For magnetic fields H applied parallel to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. B. Philipp , C. Hoefener , S. Thienhaus , J. Klein , L. Alff , R. Gross