Hanle measurements of electrodeposited Fe/GaAs spin tunnel contacts
| Autor: | Karen L. Kavanagh, Donna Hohertz, James C. McNeil, Anthony J. SpringThorpe, Sarmita Majumder |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Hanle effect
Auger electron spectroscopy Vacuum Interfacial state Chemistry Iron Nucleation rate Contact resistance Nucleation Analytical chemistry General Physics and Astronomy Theoretical calculations Auger spectroscopy Auger Magnetic oxides X-ray photoelectrons Electrodeposition Spin diffusion Interfaces (materials) Thin film Spin (physics) Tunnel contacts Metallic films |
| Popis: | We report spin transport in electrodeposited Fe/n-GaAs tunnel diodes via three-terminal Hanle measurements. For temperatures between 20 K and 150 K, the spin resistance was up to 20 times higher than expected from theoretical calculations and 1000 times larger compared to a vacuum-deposited counterpart. This higher spin resistance was correlated with a higher contact resistance, and a higher concentration of oxygen impurities in the electrodeposited Fe film and interface, as detected via x-ray photoelectron and Auger spectroscopies, and inferred from Fe film nucleation rates. These results can be explained via a small effective tunnel-contact area of 5%, but extra spin filtering via interfacial states or magnetic oxide layers cannot be ruled out. The spin diffusion times (8.5 ± 0.4 ns to 1.8 ± 0.4 ns, for 20 K to 150 K) extracted from Lorentzian fits were in good agreement with values obtained from earlier 4-terminal Hanle measurements (7.8 ± 0.4 ns to 3.2 ± 0.4 ns, for 25 K to 77 K), both 10 times slower than reported vacuum-deposited contacts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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