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We report measurements of the electron transport through atomic-scale constrictions and tunnel junctions between ferromagnetic electrodes. Structures are fabricated using a combination of e-beam lithography and controlled electromigration.…
We determine magnetoresistance effects in stable and clean permalloy nanocontacts of variable cross-section, fabricated by UHV deposition and in-situ electromigration. To ascertain the magnetoresistance (MR) effects originating from a…
A quasiclassical theory of giant magnetoresistance in nanoscale point contacts between different ferromagnetic metals is developed. The contacts were sorted by three types of mutual positions of the conduction spin-subband bottoms which are…
Using density functional theory implemented within a tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method we perform calculations of electronic, magnetic and transport properties of ferromagnetic free-standing fcc Co wires with diameters up to…
We theoretically study the electron transport through a magnetic point contact (PC) with special attention to the effect of an atomic scale domain wall (DW). The spin precession of a conduction electron is forbidden in such an atomic scale…
Quantum transport properties of intermolecular nanotube contacts are investigated. We find that atomic structure in the contact region plays important roles and resistance of contacts varies strongly with geometry and nanotube chirality.…
We present \textit{ab initio} studies for different Ni nanocontacts and show changes in the conductance of such constrictions due to atomic rearrangements in the contact. In particular we consider a Ni particle and show that the…
In this work we study the evolution of intrinsic domain wall magnetoresistance (DWMR) with domain wall confinement. Clean permalloy notched half-ring nanocontacts are fabricated using a special ultra-high vacuum electromigration procedure…
We have studied the influence of the transverse size of a magnetic tunnel nanojunction on the magnitude of the magnetoresistance. During modeling, the size of the right contact was fixed, while the size of the left one gradually changed…
In this thesis we study electron transport through magnetic nanocontacts and nanowires with ab initio quantum transport calculations. The aim is to gain a thorough understanding of the interplay between electrical conduction and magnetism…
The magnetoresistance (MR) effect in metallic atomic-sized contacts is studied theoretically by means of first-principle electronic structure calculations. We consider three-atom chains formed from Co, Cu, Si, and Al atoms suspended between…
Recent experiments in approximately 10nm size electrodeposited Ni-Ni nanocontacts have shown ballistic magnetoresitance values of 700% stable during a week (Garcia et al Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 4550(2001) and very recently up to 3000% (Chopra…
A negative differential resistance (NDR) in the nanotransport is often ascribed to electron correlations. We present a simple example which demonstrates that finite electrode bandwidths and energy dependent electrode density of states are…
This work is focused on determining the electrical resistance, which induced by single domain wall in magnetic nanowire with a negligible defect. The provided model covers a wide range of nanowire's diameters. The obtained result…
We present calculations of quantized conductance and magnetoresistance in nanosize point contacts between two ferromagnetic metals. When conductance is open for only one conduction electrons spin-projection, the magnitude of…
We report on the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) of multiwall carbon nanotubes with ultra small diameters. In particular, we consider the effect of the inter-wall interactions and the lead/nanotube coupling. Comparative studies have been…
Magnetic moments in atomic scale domain walls formed in nanoconstrictions and nanowires are softened which affects dramatically the domain wall resistance. We perform ab initio calculations of the electronic structure and conductance of…
We present ab initio calculations of the evolution of anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) in Ni nanocontacts from the ballistic to the tunnel regime. We find an extraordinary enhancement of AMR, compared to bulk, in two scenarios. In…
The lowest conductance step for a Ni nanocontact is anomalously small in comparison with the large expected number of conducting channels. We present electronic structure calculations for an extremely idealized Ni nanobridge consisting of…
We studied magnetoresistance (MR) of nanoconstrictions created in (Ga,Mn)As epilayers by O+ ion implantation. Original layers exhibit a negative MR that is plausibly caused by weak localization (WL) effects at the lowest temperatures. In…