A Study of the Reduced interfacial Magnetisation in a Heusler/Insualator Tunnel Junction

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For many Heusler compounds a spin polarisation close to 100% was predicted by band structure calculations. Thus if those materials are incorporated in magnetic tunnel junctions, a huge magnetoresistance is expected. However, employing AlOx tunneling barriers large effects could only be obtained with very few materials (e. g. Co2MnSi). Most Heusler materials, including the compound which is to be investigated in the proposed beam time, show only moderate magnetoresistance effects. A possible explanation is a reduced spin polarisation at the Heuser compound / AlOx interface, which may be seen as a reduced magnetization near the interface. Using the capabilities of the polarised neutron technique we will characterise the interfacial magnetization in this technologically relevant system.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24003241
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24003241
Provenance
Creator Professor Hans-Joachim Elmers; Dr Timothy Charlton; Dr Martin Jourdan; Professor Sean Langridge
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2010
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2007-10-24T07:20:04Z
Temporal Coverage End 2007-10-29T07:53:54Z