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We report the observation of tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance effect (TAMR) in the epitaxial metal-semiconductor system Fe/GaAs/Au. The observed two-fold anisotropy of the resistance can be switched by reversing the bias voltage,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Moser , A. Matos-Abiague , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , J. Fabian , D. Weiss

Giant or tunneling magnetoresistance are physical phenomena used for reading information in commercial spintronic devices. The effects rely on a conserved spin current passing between a reference and a sensing ferromagnetic electrode in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Libor Šmejkal , Anna Birk Hellenes , Rafael González-Hernández , Jairo Sinova , Tomáš Jungwirth

Spin-dependent electronic transport through multiferroic Co/PbTiO$_{3}$/Co tunnel junctions is studied theoretically. Conductances calculated within the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism yield both a large tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) and a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 Vladislav S. Borisov , Sergey Ostanin , Steven Achilles , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

A model of coherent tunneling, which combines multi-orbital tight-binding approximation with Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism, is developed and applied to all-semiconductor heterostructures containing (Ga,Mn)As ferromagnetic layers. A…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 P. Sankowski , P. Kacman , J. A. Majewski , T. Dietl

Controlling electronic transport through a single-molecule junction is crucial for molecular electronics or spintronics. In magnetic molecular devices, the spin degree-of-freedom can be used to this end since the magnetic properties of the…

Altermagnetism has attracted considerable interest, yet its associated spintronic phenomena have so far been largely confined to electronic systems. In this work, we uncover a universal symmetry-based strategy for realizing topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-30 Bo Yuan , Yingxi Bai , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Chengwang Niu

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 barriers are reported to show both tunneling magnetoresistance effect (TMR) and tunneling electroresistance effect (TER), displaying four resistance states by magnetic and electric field…

Recently, a new magnetic phase, termed altermagnetism, has caught the attention of the magnetism and spintronics community. This newly discovered magnetic phenomenon differs from traditional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetic. It…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-10 R. Tamang , Shivraj Gurung , D. P. Rai , Samy Brahimi , Samir Lounis

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has emerged as a subfield of spintronics, where an AFM N\'eel vector is used as a state variable. Efficient electric control and detection of the N\'eel vector are critical for spintronic applications.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-07 Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We review the recently discovered spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) and related effects from a theoretical point of view. The SMR is observed in bilayers of a magnetic insulator and a metal, in which spin currents aregenerated in the normal…

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

We calculate the resistivity and Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) of a segmented nanowire consisting of two ferromagnetic segments separated by a thin paramagnetic spacer. The quantization of the electron motion due to the small nanowire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ye. Zhuravlev , H. O. Lutz , A. V. Vedyayev

The spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) allows to investigate the magnetic textures of magnetically ordered insulators in heterostructures with normal metals by magnetotransport experiments. We here report the observation of the SMR in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-17 Paul Rosenberger , Matthias Opel , Stephan Geprägs , Hans Huebl , Rudolf Gross , Martina Müller , Matthias Althammer

The field of spin electronics (spintronics) was initiated by the discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) for which Fert[1] and Grunberg[2] were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics. GMR arises from differential scattering of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-14 A. Aziz , O. P. Wessely , M. Ali , D. M. Edwards , C. H. Marrows , B. J. Hickey , M. G. Blamire

Recent studies reveal that $\mathcal{T}$-odd spin currents generated via the nonrelativistic altermagnetic spin splitting effect (ASSE) exhibit significant potential for spintronics applications, with both computational and experimental…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-17 Wancheng Zhang , Mingkun Zheng , Yong Liu , Zhenhua Zhang , Rui Xiong , Zhihong Lu

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

Organic spintronics is a promising emerging field, but the sign of the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) is highly sensitive to interface effects, a crucial hindrance to applications. A key breakthrough in molecular electronics was the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 Narjes Gorjizadeh , Su Ying Quek

Emergent electrodynamics arising from spatially and temporally varying magnetic textures provides a framework for spin control in quantum materials. While this principle is established for ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic textures, its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Constantin Schrade , Mathias S. Scheurer

Conventional and spin-related thermoelectric effects in electronic transport through a nanoscopic system exhibiting magnetic anisotropy $-$with both uniaxial and transverse components$-$ are studied theoretically in the linear response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 Maciej Misiorny , Józef Barnaś

Altermagnets recently came into the spotlight as a new class of magnetic materials, arising as a consequence of specific crystal symmetries. They are characterized by a spin-polarized electronic band structure similar to ferromagnets, but…