NDLI: Tunnel magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions with embedded nanoparticles

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Author	Useinov, A. Useinov, N. Ye, L. Wu, T. Lai, C.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Grad. Sch. of Mater. Sci., Nat. Yunlin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Douliou, Taiwan (Wu, T.) \|\| Dept. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan (Ye, L.; Lai, C.) \|\| Dept. of Phys., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan (Useinov, A.) \|\| Inst. of Phys., Kazan Fed. Univ., Kazan, Russia (Useinov, N.)
Abstract	We present a theoretical simulation to calculate the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) in magnetic tunnel junction with embedded nano-particles (npMTJ). The simulation is done in the range of coherent electron tunneling model through the insulating layer with embedded magnetic and non-magnetic nano-particles (NPs). We consider two conduction channels in parallel within one MTJ cell, in which one is through double barriers with NP (path I in Fig. 1) and another is through a single barrier (path II). The model allows us to reproduce the TMR dependencies at low temperatures of the experimental results for npMTJs [2-4] having in-plane magnetic anisotropy. In our model we can reproduce the anomalous bias-dependence of TMR and enhanced TMR with magnetic and non-magnetic NPs. We found that the electron transport through NPs is similar to coherent one for double barrier magnetic tunnel junction (DMTJ) [1]; therefore, we take into account all transmitting electron trajectories and the spin-dependent momentum conservation law in a similar way as for DMTJs. The formula of the conductance for parallel (P) and anti-parallel (AP) magnetic configurations is presented as following: $G_{s}^{P(AP)}$ = $G_{0}σk$ F, $s}^{2}/4π$ ∫ Cos $(θ_{s})$ $D_{s}^{P(AP)}$ $Sin(θ)dθ_{s}dφ,$ where $Cos(θ_{s})$ is cosine of incidence angle of the electron trajectory $θ_{s},$ with spin index s=(↑,↓), kF, s, is the Fermi wave-vector of the top (bottom) ferromagnetic layers; for simplicity the top and bottom ferromagnetic layers are taken as symmetric; $G_{0}=2e^{2}/h$ and σ is area of the tunneling cell. The transmission probability $D_{s}^{P(AP)}$ depends on diameter of NP (d), effective mass m and wave-vector of the electron $k_{NP}$ attributing to the quantum state on NP (corresponding to the k-vector of the middle layer in DMTJs [1], and which is affected by applied bias V). Furthermore $D_{s}^{P(AP})$ depends on $Cos(θ_{s}),$ kF, s, barriers heights $U_{1,2}$ and widths $L_{1,2},$ respectively. The exact quantum mechanical solution for symmetric DMTJ was found in Ref.[1]. Here we employ parallel circuit connection of the tunneling unit cells, where each cell contains one NP with the average d less than 3 nm per unit cell's area (σ =20 $nm^{2}),$ while tunnel junction itself has surface area S and consists of N cells (N=S/σ). The total conductance of the junction is G = Nx $(G_{1↑}+G_{2}↑+G_{1↓}+G_{2}↓),$ where G1, s is dominant conductance with the NP (path I), G2, s is conductance of the direct tunneling through the single barrier (path II), and $TMR=(G^{P}-G^{AP})/G^{AP}$ ×100%.
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File Size	464644
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e-ISBN	9781479973224
DOI	10.1109/INTMAG.2015.7157345
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-05-11
Publisher Place	China
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Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Tunneling magnetoresistance Magnetic tunneling Junctions Magnetic anisotropy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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