Gabureac, M.S., Dempsey, K.J., Porter, N.A., Marrows, C.H., Rajauria, S. and Courtois, H. (2008) Spin-polarized tunneling with Au impurity layers. Journal Of Applied Physics, 103 (7). 07A915.
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Abstract
We have inserted nonmagnetic impurity layers of Au into sputtered AlOx-based magnetic tunnel junctions (F/I/F) and Meservey–Tedrow junctions (S/I/F) in order to study their effect on the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) and spin polarization (TSP). Both room temperature TMR and the TSP at 250 mK decay exponentially as an interfacial Au layer is introduced between the barrier and one Co electrode, with 1/e decay lengths λTMR=11±3 Å and λTSP=14±2 Å. We also inserted a 1 Å thick Au layer at a variable distance from the barrier/Co interface and find that both the TMR and TSP recover to the undoped value with the shorter exponential length scales of λTMR=7±4 Å and λTSP=6±2 Å.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2008 American Institute of Physics. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Journal Of Applied Physics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
| Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Physics and Astronomy (Leeds) |
| Depositing User: | Sherpa Assistant |
| Date Deposited: | 16 May 2008 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2013 17:05 |
| Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2839623 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | American Institute of Physics |
| Identification Number: | 10.1063/1.2839623 |
| URI: | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/3794 |
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