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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

It has been reported in experiments that capping layers which enhance the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) induce great impact on the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR). To explore the essential…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 Jiaqi Zhou , Weisheng Zhao , Yin Wang , Shouzhong Peng , Junfeng Qiao , Li Su , Lang Zeng , Na Lei , Lei Liu , Youguang Zhang , Arnaud Bournel

We investigate the tunneling magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) comprised of Weyl semimetal contacts. We show that chirality-magnetization locking leads to a gigantic tunneling magnetoresistance ratio, an effect that does…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 D. J. P. de Sousa , C. O. Ascencio , P. M. Haney , J. P. Wang , Tony Low

In conventional magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) typically increases with barrier thickness as electron transmission in the antiparallel configuration decays faster than that of the parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Zongmeng Yang , Xingyue Yang , Jianhua Wang , Qiang Li , Rui Peng , Ching Hua Lee , Lay Kee Ang , Jing Lu , Yee Sin Ang , Shibo Fang

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

A model of a spin valve in which electron transport between the magnetized electrodes is due to multistep tunneling is analyzed. Motivated by recent experiments on organic spin valves, we assume that spin memory loss in the course of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. C. Roundy , M. E. Raikh

We investigated the relationship between the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) ratio and the electrode structure in MgO-barrier magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). The TMR ratio in a MTJ with Co40Fe40B20 reference and free layers reached 355% at…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Shoji Ikeda , Jun Hayakawa , Young Min Lee , Fumihiro Matsukura , Hideo Ohno

We investigate the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) of a bilayer system made of $X$-wave magnets with $X=p,d,f,g,i$, where $X=d,g,i$ corresponds to altermagnets. A universal analytic formula is derived for the TMR ratio. It is proportional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Motohiko Ezawa

The bias dependence of the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) of Fe/MgO/Fe tunnel junctions is investigated theoretically with a fully self-consistent scheme that combines the non-equilibrium Green's functions method with density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ivan Rungger , Oleg N. Mryasov , Stefano Sanvito

We observe an unusual tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) phenomenon in a composite of La$_{2/3}$Sr$_{1/3}$MnO$_{3}$ with CoFe$_{2}$O$_{4}$ where the TMR versus applied magnetic field loop suggests a "negative coercive field". Tracing its…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-08 P. Anil Kumar , D. D. Sarma

Through Bayesian optimization and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) technique combined with first-principles calculations, we investigated the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-27 Shenghong Ju , Yoshio Miura , Kaoru Yamamoto , Keisuke Masuda , Ken-ichi Uchida , Junichiro Shiomi

We theoretically investigate the angular and spin dependent transport in normal-metal/helical-multiferroic/ferromagnetic heterojunctions. We find a tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR) effect due to the spiral magnetic order in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Chenglong Jia , Jamal Berakdar

We investigate the spin-dependent transport of GaMnAs-based magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) containing a paramagnetic AlMnAs barrier with various thicknesses. The barrier height of AlMnAs with respect to the Fermi level of GaMnAs is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Shinobu Ohya , Iriya Muneta , Pham Nam Hai , Masaaki Tanaka

Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) with a bottom pinned reference layer and a composite free layer (FL) are investigated. Different thicknesses of the FL were tested to obtain an optimal balance between tunneling…

Different mechanisms of spin-dependent tunneling are analyzed with respect to their role in tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR). Microscopic calculation within a realistic model shows that direct tunneling in iron group systems leads to about a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. M. Bratkovsky

We investigate the dependence of perpendicular and parallel spin transfer torque (STT) and tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) on the insulator barrier energy in the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). We employed single orbit tight binding model…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Chun-Yeol You , Jae-Ho Han , Hyun-Woo Lee

We have developed a tunneling theory to describe the temperature dependence of tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) of the magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with periodic grating barrier. Through the Patterson function approach, the theory can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Henan Fang , Mingwen Xiao , Wenbin Rui , Jun Du , Zhikuo Tao

Based on spin-density functional theory we calculate the electronic structure of a tunnel junction consisting of two magnetic Fe layers separated by an insulating vacuum barrier selfconsistently. For the conductance the Landauer formula is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Zahn , Ingrid Mertig

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…

We study spin-dependent transport through ferromagnet/normal-metal/ferromagnet double tunnel junctions in the mesoscopic Coulomb blockade regime. A general transport equation allows us to calculate the conductance in the absence or presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gonzalo Usaj , Harold. U. Baranger