• 文献标题:   Local tunnel magnetoresistance of an iron intercalated graphene-based heterostructure
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DECKER R, BAZARNIK M, ATODIRESEI N, CACIUC V, BLUGEL S, WIESENDANGER R
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, magnetism, scanning tunneling microscopy
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICSCONDENSED MATTER
  • ISSN:   0953-8984 EI 1361-648X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Hamburg
  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1088/0953-8984/26/39/394004
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

The lateral variation of the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) of a graphene-based vertical heterostructure is studied by spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) using an Fe-coated probe tip. The well-defined heterostructure is obtained by the intercalation of a magnetic Fe monolayer at the graphene/Ir(1 1 1) interface. Its structure is characterized by a moire pattern with a high corrugation. In contrast to the Fe/Ir(1 1 1) surface, graphene/Fe/Ir(1 1 1) exhibits ferromagnetic order with an out-of-plane easy magnetization axis. At the nanometer scale, our experiments reveal that the moire pattern induces a lateral variation of the TMR, which reaches 80%. The measured TMR at valleys of the moire pattern is higher than at hills. We interpret this modulation in terms of a different hybridization between graphene and Fe at valleys and hills due to a different graphene-Fe distance at these sites, which leads to a different transmission of spin-polarized states.