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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

Coherent spin-dependent electronic transport is investigated in a molecular junction made of polymeric chain attached to ferromagnetic electrodes (Ni and Co, respectively). Molecular system is described by a simple Huckel model, while the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak

In the past few years the phenomenon of spin dependent tunneling (SDT) in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) has aroused enormous interest and has developed into a vigorous field of research. The large tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR)…

Using first-principles calculations, we investigated the impact of chromium (Cr) and vanadium (V) impurities on the magnetic anisotropy and spin polarization in Fe/MgO magnetic tunnel junctions. It is demonstrated using layer resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-25 A. Hallal , B. Dieny , M. Chshiev

We measure the low-temperature resistance of permalloy break junctions as a function of contact size and the magnetic field angle, in applied fields large enough to saturate the magnetization. For both nanometer-scale metallic contacts and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 Kirill I. Bolotin , Ferdinand Kuemmeth , D. C. Ralph

We report the precise control of tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in devices of self-assembled core/shell Fe$_3$O$_4$/Co$_{1-x}$Zn$_x$Fe$_2$O$_4$ nanoparticles ($0\leq x\leq 1$). Adjusting the magnetic anisotropy through the content of…

Tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR) effect, discovered recently in (Ga,Mn)As ferromagnetic semiconductors, arises from spin-orbit coupling and reflects the dependence of the tunneling density of states in a ferromagnetic layer on…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. B. Shick , F. Maca , J. Masek , T. Jungwirth

We observe spin-valve-like effects in nano-scaled thermally evaporated Co/AlOx/Au tunnel junctions. The tunneling magnetoresistance is anisotropic and depends on the relative orientation of the magnetization direction of the Co electrode…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. S. Liu , L. Michalak , C. M. Canali , L. Samuelson , H. Pettersson

Complex oxide systems have attracted considerable attention because of their fascinating properties, including the magnetic ordering at the conducting interface between two band insulators, such as LaAlO3 (LAO) and SrTiO3 (STO). However,…

Bilinear magnetoresistance is a nonlinear transport phenomenon that scales linearly with the electric and magnetic fields, and appears in nonmagnetic systems with strong spin-orbit coupling, such as topological insulators (TIs). Using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 A. N. Zarezad , A. Dyrdał

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…

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

Based on general symmetry considerations we investigate how the dependence of the tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR) on the magnetization direction is determined by the specific form of the spin-orbit coupling field. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-17 A. Matos-Abiague , M. Gmitra , J. Fabian

We present magnetic and tunnel transport properties of (Ga,Mn)As/(In,Ga)As/(Ga,Mn)As structure before and after adequate annealing procedure. The conjugate increase of magnetization and tunnel magnetoresistance obtained after annealing is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-06-04 M. Elsen , H. Jaffres , R. Mattana , L. Thevenard , A. Lemaitre , J. -M. George

Here we demonstrate that both, tunnel magneto resistance (TMR) and resistive switching (RS), can be observed simultaneously in nano-scale magnetic tunnel junctions. The devices show bipolar RS of 6 % and TMR ratios of about 100 %. For each…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Krzysteczko , G. Reiss , A. Thomas

Altermagnets exhibit characteristics akin to antiferromagnets, with spin-split anisotropic bands in momentum space. RuO$_2$ has been considered as a prototype altermagnet; however, recent reports have questioned altermagnetic ground state…

Altermagnets can replace ferromagnets in tunnel junctions, yielding large tunneling magnetoresistance, ultrafast switching, and low-power functionality. While most studies explore the linear-response regime, interesting features emerge at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Sajjan Sheoran , Luke Keenan , Declan Nell , Stefano Sanvito

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

Using a simple quantum-mechanical model, we explore a tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR) effect in ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) with a ferromagnetic electrode and a ferroelectric barrier layer, which spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 A. Alexandrov , M. Ye. Zhuravlev , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Resonant tunneling can lead to inverse tunnel magnetoresistance when impurity levels rather than direct tunneling dominate the transport process. We fabricated hybrid magnetic tunnel junctions of CoFe/LiF/EuS/Ti, with an epitaxial LiF…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-09 Fen Liu , Yihang Yang , Qian Xue , Zhiwei Gao , Aixi Chen , Guo-Xing Miao