Room temperature chiral magnetoresistance in a chiral-perovskite-based perpendicular spin valve

Autor: Min-Gu Kang, In-Kook Hwang, Hee-Chang Kyung, Jaimin Kang, Donghyeon Han, Soogil Lee, Junyoung Kwon, Kyung-Jin Lee, Jihyeon Yeom, Byong-Guk Park
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: APL Materials, Vol 12, Iss 8, Pp 081118-081118-8 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2166-532X
DOI: 10.1063/5.0221834
Popis: Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) allows for the generation of spin currents without the need for ferromagnets or external magnetic fields, enabling innovative spintronic device designs. One example is a chiral spin valve composed of ferromagnetic and chiral materials, in which the resistance depends on both the magnetization direction of the ferromagnet and the chirality of the chiral material. So far, chiral spin valves have predominately employed chiral organic molecules, which have limited device applications. Chiral perovskites, which combine the properties of inorganic perovskites with chiral organic molecules, provide an excellent platform for exploring CISS-based devices. However, previous chiral perovskite-based spin valves exhibited magnetoresistance (MR) only at low temperatures. Here, we report room temperature MR in a chiral spin valve consisting of chiral perovskites/AlOx/perpendicular ferromagnet structures. It is observed that the chiral MR increases with rising temperature, suggesting the crucial role of phonon-induced enhancement of spin–orbit coupling in CISS in our device. Furthermore, we enhanced the chiral MR by introducing chiral molecules with amplified chirality. This highlights the potential of chirality engineering to improve CISS and the associated chiral MR, thereby opening possibilities for chiral spin valves tailored for cutting-edge spintronic applications.
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