• 文献标题:   Understanding the effect of vacancy defects on spin transport in CrO2-graphene-CrO2 magnetic tunnel junction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHOUDHARY S, KAUSHIK D
  • 作者关键词:   graphene nanosheet, spintronic, magnetic tunnel junction, vacancy defect, halfmetallic ferromagnetic electrode, tunnel magnetoresistance, spin efficiency
  • 出版物名称:   MODERN PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • ISSN:   0217-9849 EI 1793-6640
  • 通讯作者地址:   Inst Technol
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1142/S0217984916501025
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

In this paper, we investigate the effect of vacancy defects on spin transport in graphene-based magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). An increase in conductance was seen in vacancy-defected MTJ structure which is in contrast to the results reported in past where a decrease in conductance with vacancy was observed for graphene sheets. This increase in conductance may be due to the use of CrO2 half-metallic ferromagnet (HMF) electrodes instead of metallic or ferromagnet (FM) electrodes. Furthermore, high tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) similar to 99% and perfect spin filtration was obtained for both vacancy-defected and no-defect (pristine) MTJ structures. The TMR in vacancy-defected structure is seen to decrease by 6.2% and by 13% at bias voltages of 1.2V and 1.4V, when compared to TMR in no-defect MTJ structure.