Temperature dependence of two-terminal local magnetoresistance in Co-based Heusler alloy/Ge lateral spin-valve devices
Temperature dependence of two-terminal local magnetoresistance in Co-based Heusler alloy/Ge lateral spin-valve devices
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钴基霍斯勒合金/Ge横向自旋阀器件两端局域磁阻的温度依赖性
DOI:
10.1109/tmag.2022.3145393
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Hamaya Kohei
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作者:
Yamada Michihiro;Naito Takahiro;Sumi Kazuaki;Sawano Kentarou;Hamaya Kohei
We investigate temperature dependence of two-terminal local magnetoresistance (MR) effect for germanium (Ge)-based lateral spin-valve (LSV) devices with three different ferromagnet (FM)/Ge Schottky tunnel contacts. When we insert a 0.7-nm-thick Fe layer between Co-based Heusler alloy and Ge interfaces in LSV devices, the magnitude of the local MR signals is significantly improved from low temperatures to room temperature. However, the temperature dependence of the MR ratio is still large even for LSV devices with Fe insertion. From the analysis based on the standard theory, the temperature-dependent MR ratio can be interpreted in terms of thermally excited spin waves (law) in FM contacts. The physical origin of the decay of the two-terminal MR ratio in Ge-based LSV devices is the same as that of the four-terminal nonlocal spin signals because small temperature dependence of contact resistance is demonstrated in FM/Ge Schottky tunnel contacts which show almost linear–characteristics and low interface resistance.