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Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are key elements in practical spintronics, enabling not only conventional tasks such as data storage, transmission, and processing but also the implementation of compute-in-memory processing elements,…

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We study the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect and magnetocrystalline anisotropy in a series of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with $L1_1$-ordered fcc ferromagnetic alloys and MgO barrier along the [111] direction. Considering the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-24 Keisuke Masuda , Hiroyoshi Itoh , Yoshiaki Sonobe , Hiroaki Sukegawa , Seiji Mitani , Yoshio Miura

We investigate real-time dynamics of spin-polarized current in a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads in both parallel and antiparallel alignments. While an external bias voltage is taken constant in time, a gate terminal,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-22 Fabricio M. Souza , Thiago L. Carrara , E. Vernek

Multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) have already been proved to be promising candidates for application in spintronics devices. The coupling between tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) and tunnel electroresistance (TER) in MFTJs can provide…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-25 Q. Liu , J. Miao , Z. D. Xu , P. F. Liu , Q. H. Zhang , L. Gu , K. K. Meng , X. G. Xu , J. K. Chen , Y. Wu , Y. Jiang

Temperature dependence of the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) was calculated in range of the quantum-ballistic model in the magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with embedded nanoparticles (NPs). The electron tunnel transport through NP was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 Arthur Useinov , Chih-Huang Lai

Antiferromagnetic (AF) spintronics is merit on ultra-high operator speed and stability in the presence of magnetic field. To fully use the merit, the device should be pure rather than hybrid with ferromagnet or ferrimagnet. For the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Xingtao Jia , Hui-Min Tang , Shi-Zhuo Wan

Emerging altermagnetic materials with vanishing net magnetizations and unique band structures have been envisioned as an ideal electrode to design antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions. Their momentum-resolved spin splitting in band structures…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-21 Boyuan Chi , Leina Jiang , Yu Zhu , Guoqiang Yu , Caihua Wan , Jia Zhang , Xiufeng Han

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

A new family of supramolecular, antiferromagnetically exchange-coupled dimers of single-molecule magnets (SMMs) has recently been reported [W. Wernsdorfer, N. Aliaga-Alcalde, D.N. Hendrickson, and G. Christou, Nature 416, 406 (2002)]. Each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Tiron , W. Wernsdorfer , D. Foguet-Albiol , N. Aliaga-Alcalde , G. Christou

We propose a new class of non-uniform superlattice magnetic tunnel junctions (Nu-SLTJs) with the Linear, Gaussian, Lorentzian, and P\"oschl-teller width and height based profiles manifesting a sizable enhancement in the TMR($\approx…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 Sabarna Chakraborti , Abhishek Sharma

Using a laterally-fabricated quantum-dot (QD) spin-valve device, we experimentally study the Kondo effect in the electron transport through a semiconductor QD with an odd number of electrons (N). In a parallel magnetic configuration of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Hamaya , M. Kitabatake , K. Shibata , M. Jung , M. Kawamura , K. Hirakawa , T. Machida , T. Taniyama , S. Ishida , Y. Arakawa

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

We theoretically propose and analyze a Josephson-like magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure that exhibits quantum spin dynamics analogous to those in superconducting Josephson junctions. By exploiting the isomorphism between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 V. V. Yurlov , P. N. Skirdkov , K. A. Zvezdin , A. K. Zvezdin

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

Quantum-well (QW) devices have been extensively investigated in semiconductor structures. More recently, spin-polarized QWs were integrated into magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). In this work, we demonstrate the spin-based control of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Muftah Al-Mahdawi , Qingyi Xiang , Yoshio Miura , Mohamed Belmoubarik , Keisuke Masuda , Shinya Kasai , Hiroaki Sukegawa , Seiji Mitani

We investigated spin dependent transport through Fe/GaAs/Fe tunnel junctions. The tunneling magnetoresistance effect (TMR) was probed for different types of Fe/GaAs interfaces. For interfaces cleaned by hydrogen plasma the TMR effect is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Moser , M. Zenger , C. Gerl , D. Schuh , R. Meier , P. Chen , G. Bayreuther , W. Wegscheider , D. Weiss , C. -H. Lai , R. -T. Huang , M. Kosuth , H. Ebert

We experimentally investigate the structural, magnetic and electrical transport properties of La$_{0.67}$Sr$_{0.33}$MnO$_{3}$ based magnetic tunnel junctions with a SrSnO$_3$ barrier. Our results show that despite the large number of…

Spin-dependent transport through a two-level quantum dot in the sequential tunneling regime is analyzed theoretically by means of a real-time diagrammatic technique. It is shown that the current, tunnel magnetoresistance, and shot noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Weymann , J. Barnas

The 'Brillouin zone spin filtering' mechanism of enhanced tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) is described for magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) and studied on an example of the MTJ with hcp Co electrodes and hexagonal BN (h-BN) spacer. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-16 Sergey V. Faleev , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Oleg N. Mryasov

Using an advanced tight-binding approach, we estimate the anisotropy of the tunnel transmission associated with the rotation of the 5/2 spin of a single Mn atom forming an acceptor state in GaAs and located near an AlGaAs tunnel barrier.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 M. O. Nestoklon , O. Krebs , H. Jaffrès , S. Ruttala , J. -M. George , J. -M. Jancu , P. Voisin