2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Analysis and control of spin polarization of half-metallic ferromagnets by the use of runneling junctions
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12450009
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Applied materials science/Crystal engineering
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
ASANO Hidefumi Nagoya University, School of Eng. Associate Professor, 工学研究科, 助教授 (50262853)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MATSUI Masaaki Nagoya University, School of Eng. Professor, 工学研究科, 教授 (90013531)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2001
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| Keywords | tunneling effect / half-metal / spin polarization / tunnel junction / La_<0.7>Sr_<0.3>MnO_3 / Sr_2FeMoO_6 / magneto-resistance / Fe_3O_4 |
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| Research Abstract |
Tunnel junctions of Co_<0.9>Fe_<0.1>/SrTiO_3/La_<0.7>Sr_<0.3>MnO_3 (LSMO) were investigated in order to elucidate the factors affecting the spin polarization of interfaces of ferromagnets. Through the evaluation of junction magnetoresistance (MR) at 4.2 K and the high resolution Rutherford backscattering technique, it is found that the origin of inter facial degradation is the oxygen deficiencies in the SrTiO_3 barriers. The local densities of states at the Co_<0.9>Fe_<0.1> interface deduced from the bias voltage (V) dependence of MR conincide well with the results of the first principle calcualtion, indicating that the Co_<0.9>Fe_<0.1> interface is of high quality. In the LSMO juncttions, the MR effects disappear at temperatures of around 200 K well below the ferromagnetic transition temperature T_c of 360 K, which indicates that the spin polarization of LSMO interface goes down to zero at the temperatures.
As an alternative of LSMO, high T_c half-metallic ferromagnets Sr_2FeMoO_6 and Fe_3O_4 were investigated with respect to their fundamental properties. For thin films of Sr_2FeMoO_6, which were grown by sputtering in an Ar+H_2 gas atmosphere, the effects of lattice-mismatch induced strain and its relaxation process on the magnetization and transport properties have been elucidated, and high quality films with a full magnetization have been realized by measns of a lattice-matched buffer layer technique. This strongly indicates the half metalicity of Sr_2FeMoO_6 films at the ground state. Considering the high T_c (42O K) of Sr_2FeMoO_6, a high spin polarlization of 0.7 at RT is expected. Moreover, as for Fe_3O_4, high quality urtra thin films showing Verway transition have been obtained. For realization of high T_cjunctions, insulating barrier materials such as A1N is shown to be promising.
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[Publications] H. Asano, S. B. Ogale, J. Garrison, A. Orozco, Y. H. Li, E. Li, V. Smolyaninova, C. Galley, M. Downes, M. Rajeswari, R. Ramesh, and T. Venkatesan: "Pulsed-laser-deposited Sr_2FeMoO_<6-y> thin films : Positive and negative magnetoresistance regimes"Appl. Phys. Lett. 74. 3696-3698 (1999)
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[Publications] A. Orozco, S. B. Ogale, Y. H. Li, P. Fourier, Eric. Li, H.Asano, V. Smolyaninova, R. L. Greene, R. P. Sharma, R. Rarnesh, and T. Venkatesan: "Oscillatory exchange coupling and giant magnetpresistance in TiN/Fe_3O_4 superlattices"Phys. Rev. Lett. 23. 1680-1683 (1999)
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