6 research outputs found
The role of magnetic anisotropy in spin filter junctions
We have fabricated oxide based spin filter junctions in which we demonstrate
that magnetic anisotropy can be used to tune the transport behavior of spin
filter junctions. Until recently, spin filters have been largely comprised of
polycrystalline materials where the spin filter barrier layer and one of the
electrodes are ferromagnetic. These spin filter junctions have relied on the
weak magnetic coupling between one ferromagnetic electrode and a barrier layer
or the insertion of a nonmagnetic insulating layer in between the spin filter
barrier and electrode. We have demonstrated spin filtering behavior in
La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/chromite/Fe3O4 junctions without nonmagnetic spacer layers where
the interface anisotropy plays a significant role in determining transport
behavior. Detailed studies of chemical and magnetic structure at the interfaces
indicate that abrupt changes in magnetic anisotropy across the
non-isostructural interface is the cause of the significant suppression of
junction magnetoresistance in junctions with MnCr2O4 barrier layers.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure
Magnetism at spinel thin film interfaces probed through soft X-ray spectroscopy techniques
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Magnons coherent transmission and heat transport at ultrathin insulating ferromagnetic nanojunctions
A model calculation is presented for the magnons coherent transmission and corresponding heat transport at insulating magnetic nanojunctions. The system consists of a ferromagnetically ordered ultrathin insulating junction between two semi-infinite ferromagnetically ordered leads with ideally flat crystal interfaces. The ground state of the system is depicted by an exchange Hamiltonian neglecting smaller dipolar and anisotropy terms. The spin dynamics are analyzed using the equations of motion for the spin precession displacements, valid in the limit of low temperatures compared to an order-disorder transition temperature characteristic of the system. The coherent transmission and reflection spectra at the nanojunction boundary are calculated in the Landauer-Buttiker formalism using the matching theory, for all the magnons in the lead bulk, at arbitrary angles of incidence on the boundary, and for variable temperatures. The model calculations yield the thermal conductivity κm due to the magnons coherent transmission between the two leads maintained at slightly different temperatures. The model is general, and is applied in particular to the Fe/Gd/Fe system to calculate the coherent transmission of magnons and their thermal conductivity at the junction boundary, for different thicknesses of the Gd junction and its corresponding magnetic order. The calculated results elucidate the comparison between the heat transport from magnons with that in parallel channels from electrons and phonons, at the nanojunction boundary