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Using a quantum theory including spin-splitting effect in diluted magnetic semiconductors, we study the dependence of tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) on barrier thickness, temperature and applied voltage in GaMnAs/GaAs/GaMnAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alireza Saffarzadeh , Ali A. Shokri

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

The tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) in the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) with embedded nanoparticles (NPs) was calculated in range of the quantum-ballistic model. The simulation was performed for electron tunneling through the insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-25 Arthur Useinov , Lin-Xiu Ye , Niazbeck Useinov , Te-Ho Wu , Chih-Huang Lai

The dependence of tunneling conductance and tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) on barrier thickness in magnetic tunnel junctions is theoretically investigated. The complex band structure of the insulator is taken into account, and an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 B. C. Lee

We report on our theoretical study of the inverse TMR effect in the spin polarized transport through a narrow channel. In the weak tunneling limit, we find the ordinary positive TMR. The TMR changes its sign as the transmission probability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tae-Suk Kim

We report the bias voltage controlled inversions of tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in magnetic tunnel junctions composed of Fe3GaTe2 electrodes and hBN tunneling barrier, observed at room temperature. The polarity reversal of TMR occurs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Lihao Zhang , Miao He , Xiaoyu Wang , Haodong Zhang , Keying Han , Yonglai Liu , Lei Zhang , Yingchun Cheng , Jie Pan , Zhe Qu , Zhe Wang

The tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) of a hexagonal array of dipolar coupled anisotropic magnetic nanoparticles is studied using a resistor network model and a realistic micromagnetic configuration obtained by Monte Carlo simulations.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Kechrakos , K. N. Trohidou

The influence of insertion of an ultra-thin NiO layer between the MgO barrier and ferromagnetic electrode in magnetic tunnel junctions has been investigated by measuring the tunneling magnetoresistance and the X-ray magnetic circular…

We investigate transport through 6 to 10 nm thin epitaxial GaAs(001) barriers sandwiched between polycrystalline iron films. Apart from a pronounced tunneling magnetoresistance effect (TMR) at low magnetic fields we observe a distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Zenger , J. Moser , W. Wegscheider , D. Weiss , T. Dietl

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

Detailed theoretical derivation is given for the tunnel magnetoresistance via phonon-assisted hopping through an impurity chain under small magnetic field and a large bias window. This derivation provides a rigorous basis for the physical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-14 Yang Song

The relation between tunnel magneto-resistance (TMR) and spin polarization is explored for GaMnAs/GaAlAs/GaMnAs structures where the carriers experience strong spin-orbit interactions. TMR is calculated using Landauer approach. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Brey , C. Tejedor , J. Fernández-Rossier

Tunneling electroresistance (TER) effect is the change in the electrical resistance of a ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) associated with polarization reversal in the ferroelectric barrier layer. Here we predict that a FTJ with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-26 M. Ye. Zhuravlev , Y. Wang , S. Maekawa , E. Y. Tsymbal

Using first-principles quantum-transport calculations, we investigate spin-dependent electronic and transport properties of antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions (AFMTJs) that consist of (110)-oriented antiferromagnetic (AFM) metal RuO$_{2}$…

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

In quasi-magnetic tunnel junctions (QMTJs) with a EuS spin filter tunnel barrier between Al and Co electrodes, we observed large magnetoresistance (MR). The bias dependence shows an abrupt increase of MR ratio in high bias voltage, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Nagahama , T. S. Santos , J. S. Moodera

We examine the spin torque (ST) response of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with ultra-thin MgO tunnel barrier layers to investigate the relationship between the spin-transfer torque and the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) under finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. D. Fuchs , J. A. Katine , S. I. Kiselev , D. Mauri , K. S. Wooley , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

The antiferromagnets with the time-reversal symmetry broken magnetic structures possess a finite spin splitting in the momentum space, and may contribute to a realization of a finite tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect even with magnets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Katsuhiro Tanaka , Yuta Toga , Susumu Minami , Satoru Nakatsuji , Takuya Nomoto , Takashi Koretsune , Ryotaro Arita

We calculate the conductances and the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) of double magnetic tunnel junctions, taking as a model example junctions composed of Fe/ZnSe/Fe/ZnSe/Fe (001). The calculations are done as a function of the gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-08 J. Peralta-Ramos , A. M. Llois

First-principles calculations of electron tunneling transport in Ni and Co break junctions reveal strong dependence of the conductance on the magnetization direction, an effect known as tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-06 J. D. Burton , R. F. Sabirianov , J. P. Velev , O. N. Mryasov , E. Y. Tsymbal