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Oxygen-vacancy driven tunnelling spintronics across MgO
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Halisdemir, Ufuk Schleicher, Filip Taudul, Beata Lacour, Didier Choi, W. Gallart, Mathieu Boukari, Samy Schmerber, G. Davesne, Vincent Panissod, Pierre Halley, D. Majjad, Hicham Henry, Yann Leconte, B. Boulard, Anaïs Spor, D. Beyer, Nicolas Kieber, C. Sternitzky, E. Crégut, Olivier Ziegler, Moritz Julius Montaigne, François Arabski, Jacek Beaurepaire, Emmanuel Alouani, Mebarek Gilliot, Pierre Hehn, Michel Bowen, Martin |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | The conservation of an electron’s spin and symmetry as it undergoes solid-state tunnelling within magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) is thought to be best understood using MgO-based MTJs1. Yet the very large experimental values of tunnelling magnetoresistance (TMR) that justify this perception are often associated with tunnelling barrier heights well below those suggested by the MgO optical band gap. This combination of high TMR and low RA-product, while spawning spin-transfer/spin-orbit torque experiments and considerable industrial interest, cannot be explained by standard theory. Noting the impact of a tunnel barrier’s altered stoichiometry on TMR2, we reconcile this 10+year-old contradiction between theory and experiment by considering the impact of the MgO barrier’s structural defects3–5. We find that the ground and excited states of oxygen vacancies can promote localized states within the band gap with differing electronic character. By setting symmetry- and temperature-dependent tunnelling barrier heights, they alter symmetry-polarized tunnelling and thus TMR. We will examine how annealing, depending on MgO growth conditions, can alter the nature of these localized states. This oxygen vacancy paradigm of inorganic tunnelling spintronics opens interesting perspectives into endowing the MTJ with additional functionalities, such as optically manipulating the MTJ’s spintronic response. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1117/12.2239017 |
| Volume Number | 9931 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.sinova-group.physik.uni-mainz.de/files/2016/11/2016-11-29-Bowen.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2239017 |
| Journal | NanoScience + Engineering |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
