Quantum effects for ballistic transport in spintronic devices

preprint2008arXivOpen access

Abstract

Recent fabrication of atomic precision nanodevices for spintronics greatly boosted their performance and also revealed new interesting features, as oscillating magnetoresistance with number of atomic layers in a multilayered structure. This motivates the need to go beyond the usual theoretical approach of semi-classical continuous layers. Here the simple tight-binding dynamics is used to describe quantum conduction in a multicomponent system with spin-polarized electrodes separated by an ultrathin and atomically coherent non-magnetic spacer (either metallic or insulating). A possibility is indicated for obtaining a huge resonant enhancement of magnetoresistance in such device by a special choice of gate voltage on the spacer element.

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