自旋电子学研究与进展

自旋电子学是最近几年在凝聚态物理中发展起来的新学科分支，它研究在固体中自旋自由度的有效控制和操纵，在金属和半导体中自旋极化、自旋动力学、自旋极化的输运和自旋电子检测．由于它在信息存储方面的重大应用前景，受到学术界和工业界的高度重视．文章扼要地介绍了自旋电子学发展的历程和发展中的最重要的发现．最近几年，最奇特的发现和最重要的应用莫过于巨磁电阻，薄膜领域纳米技术的迅速发展使巨磁电阻的应用变成可能．作为磁记录头它已使硬磁盘的记录密度提高到170Gbit／in^2．动态随机存储器MRAM的研究已实现16Mbit的存储密度．     

IrMn基反铁磁自旋阀的巨磁电阻效应

用第一性原理方法研究了在微观尺度具有三重对称磁结构的IrMn合金的反铁磁自旋阀(AFSV)的电子输运.研究表明:基于有序L1₂相IrMn合金的Co/Cu/IrMn自旋阀的巨磁电阻(GMR)效应具有三重对称性,可以利用这一特性区分反铁磁材料的GMR与传统铁磁材料的GMR.基于无序γ相IrMn合金的IrMn(0.84 nm)/Cu(0.42 nm)/IrMn(0.42 nm)/Cu(0.42 nm)(111) AFSV的电流平行平面构型的GMR约为7.7％,大约是电流垂直平面构型的GMR(3.4％)的两倍,明显大于实验中观测到的基于共线磁结构的FeMn基AFSV的GMR. 关键词： 反铁磁自旋阀 巨磁电阻效应 非共线磁结构 电流平行平面结构     

自旋Seebeck效应简介

自旋电子学作为一个新兴的学科,是未来电子学发展的重要方向之一.而近年来发现的自旋泽贝克（Seebeck）效应则为自旋电子学的研究提供了不少新现象.文章通过对自旋Seebeck效应的一些科研进展的介绍,较详尽地阐明了自旋Seebeck效应的定义和常用的利用逆自旋霍尔（Hall）效应来进行观测的机制与方法,并对不同种类材料中的自旋Seebeck效应及其可能的成因进行了分析介绍.     

Effect of thermal deformation on giant magnetoresistance of flexible spin valves grown on polyvinylidene fluoride membranes

We fabricated flexible spin valves on polyvinylidene fluoride(PVDF) membranes and investigated the influence of thermal deformation of substrates on the giant magnetoresistance(GMR) behaviors. The large magnetostrictive Fe_(81)Ga_(19)(Fe Ga) alloy and the low magnetostrictive Fe_(19)Ni_(81)(Fe Ni) alloy were selected as the free and pinned ferromagnetic layers.In addition, the exchange bias(EB) of the pinned layer was set along the different thermal deformation axes α_(31) or α_(32) of PVDF. The GMR ratio of the reference spin valves grown on Si intrinsically increases with lowering temperature due to an enhancement of spontaneous magnetization. For flexible spin valves, when decreasing temperature, the anisotropic thermal deformation of PVDF produces a uniaxial anisotropy along the α_(32) direction, which changes the distribution of magnetic domains. As a result, the GMR ratio at low temperature for spin valves with EB α_(32)becomes close to that on Si, but for spin valves with EB α_(31)is far away from that on Si. This thermal effect on GMR behaviors is more significant when using magnetostrictive Fe Ga as the free layer.     

自旋电子学和计算机硬件产业

1988年发现巨磁电阻（GMR）效应，是基于自旋的新电子学的开始。文章介绍观察效应的物理基础，以及这些效应和材料在信息存储上的应用。GMR硬盘（HDD）已经形成了数十亿美元的工业；其后发现的室温隧道磁电阻（TMR）效应已用于制造新关磁随机存储器（MRAM），它正在开创另一个数十亿美元的工业。自旋电子学研究的物理对象是自旋向上和自旋向下的载流子，而传统半导体电子学的对象是电荷为正和电荷为负的载流子，即空穴和电子。电子自旋特性进入半导体电子学，为新的器件创造了机会。为了成功地将电子自旋结合到半导体微电子技术中去，需要解决磁性原子自旋极化状态的控制，以及自旋极化载流子电流的有效注入、传输、控制、操纵和检测。评述了基于电子自旋的新器件原理、新材料的探索以及自旋相干态的光学操纵。     

Spin valves with CoO as an exchange bias layer

The temperature dependence (50–300 K) of the magnetoresistance and exchange bias field of spin valves with a CoO exchange bias layer have been investigated. At room temperature the GMR effect is enhanced in comparison with spin valves with a FeMn biasing layer. This enhancement increases for decreasing temperature for small Cu thicknesses. No influence of the antiferromagnetism of CoO on the GMR has been observed upon crossing of the Néel temperature.     

The effect of electrode/graphene interfaces and dephasing processes on conductance and giant magnetoresistance

This study is devoted to potential applications of graphene nanostructures (GNRs) in future electronics and spintronics. This problem is related with the impact of geometrical and magnetic features of interfaces between contacts and the GNR on electrical performance of the device. The present approach combines the tight‐binding model and Green's function technique. It makes possible to put end‐contacted and side‐contacted arrangements on an equal footing, and understand their effect on conductance and giant magnetoresistance (GMR), depending on: aspect ratio, current orientation, gate voltage and dephasing. It turns out that at low gate voltages, dephasing processes may enhance the GMR effect, and that for short nanoribbons the end‐contacted geometry leads to the highest conductance. Long semiconducting armchair graphene nanoribbons, in turn, may reveal a sizeable inverse GMR effect. Some additional insight into the scalability of GNRs, for the spin‐dependent transport, is also provided.

     

Transport phenomena in spin caloritronics

The interconversion between spin, charge, and heat currents is being actively studied from the viewpoints of both fundamental physics and thermoelectric applications in the field of spin caloritronics. This field is a branch of spintronics, which has developed rapidly since the discovery of the thermo-spin conversion phenomenon called the spin Seebeck effect. In spin caloritronics, various thermo-spin conversion phenomena and principles have subsequently been discovered and magneto-thermoelectric effects, thermoelectric effects unique to magnetic materials, have received renewed attention with the advances in physical understanding and thermal/thermoelectric measurement techniques. However, the existence of various thermo-spin and magneto-thermoelectric conversion phenomena with similar names may confuse non-specialists. Thus, in this Review, the basic behaviors, spin-charge-heat current conversion symmetries, and functionalities of spin-caloritronic phenomena are summarized, which will help new entrants to learn fundamental physics, materials science, and application studies in spin caloritronics.     

Magnetoresistance of Fe3O4/Au/Fe3O4 and Fe3O4/Au/Fe spin-valve structures

A detailed study of the in-plane magnetotransport properties of spin valves with one and two Fe₃O₄ electrodes is presented. Fe₃O₄/Au/Fe₃O₄ spin valves exhibit a clear anisotropic magnetoresistance in small magnetic fields but no giant magnetoresistance (GMR). The absence of GMR in these structures is due to simultaneous magnetization reversal in the two Fe₃O₄ layers. By contrast, a negative GMR effect is measured on Fe₃O₄/Au/Fe spin valves. The negative GMR is attributed to an electron spin scattering asymmetry at the Fe₃O₄/Au interface or an induced spin scattering asymmetry in the Au interfacial layers.     

Enhanced granular magnetoresistance due to ferromagnetic layers

Giant magnetoresistance (GMR) of sequentially evaporated Fe-Ag structures has been investigated. Direct experimental evidence is given, showing that inserting ferromagnetic layers into a granular structure significantly enhances the magnetoresistance. The increase in the GMR effect is attributed to spin polarization effects. The large enhancement (up to more than a fourfold value) and the linear variation of the GMR in low magnetic fields are explained by scattering of the spin polarized conduction electrons on paramagnetic grains.     

Spin-polarized transport properties of a pyridinium-based molecular spintronics device

By applying a first-principles approach based on non-equilibrium Green's functions combined with density functional theory, the transport properties of a pyridinium-based “radical-π-radical” molecular spintronics device are investigated. The obvious negative differential resistance (NDR) and spin current polarization (SCP) effect, and abnormal magnetoresistance (MR) are obtained. Orbital reconstruction is responsible for novel transport properties such as that the MR increases with bias and then decreases and that the NDR being present for both parallel and antiparallel magnetization configurations, which may have future applications in the field of molecular spintronics.     

基于石墨烯电极的Co-Salophene分子器件的自旋输运

采用基于非平衡格林函数结合第一性原理的密度泛函理论的计算方法,研究了基于锯齿型石墨纳米带电极的Co-Salophene分子器件的自旋极化输运性质.计算结果表明,当左右电极为平行自旋结构时,自旋向上的电流明显大于自旋向下的电流,自旋向下的电流在[-1V,1V]偏压下接近零,分子器件表现出优异的自旋过滤效应.与此同时,在自旋向上电流中发现负微分电阻效应.当左右电极为反平行自旋结构时,器件表现出双自旋过滤和双自旋分子整流效应.除此之外,整个分子器件还表现出较高的巨磁阻效应.通过分析器件的自旋极化透射谱、局域态密度、电极的能带结构和分子自洽投影哈密顿量,详细解释该分子器件表现出众多特性的内在机理.研究结果对设计多功能分子器件具有重要的借鉴意义.     

Progress in organic spintronics

Recent progress in organic spintronics is given an informative overview, covering spin injection, detection, and trans-port in organic spin valve devices, and the magnetic field effect in organic semiconductors （OSCs）. In particular, we focus on our own recent work in spin injection and the organic magnetic field effect （OMFE）.     

Recent spinterfacial studies targeted to spin manipulation in molecular spintronic devices

Molecular spintronics is an emerging field which evoked wide research attention since the first molecule-based spintronic device has been reported at 2002. Due to the active study over the last few years, it is found that the interfaces in spintronic device, so called spinterface, is of critical importance for many key issues in molecular spintronics, such as enhancing spin injection, lengthening spin transport distance, as well as manipulating spin signals in molecular spintronic devices. Here in this review, recent studies regarding spinterface in molecular devices, especially those impressive efforts devoted on spin manipulation, have been systematically summarized and discussed.     

Mode selective control of flow turbulence

We study spin transport in normal/ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic.../normal graphene superlattices, which can be realized by putting a series of magnetic insulator bars on top of a graphene sheet. Owing to magnetic proximity effect, local exchange splittings will be induced in the graphene sheet, effectively forming a magnetic graphene superlattice. The spin polarization of tunneling conductance and the magneto resistance (MR) exhibit oscillatory behavior with the gate voltage. The superlattice structure leads to an enhanced spin polarization and MR ratio, making the magnetic graphene superlattice become very promising in spintronics applications.     

磁电子学器件应用原理

本文介绍几种重要的磁电子器件的基本结构和工作原理,包括巨磁电阻与隧穿磁电阻传感器、巨磁电阻隔离器、巨磁电阻与隧穿磁电阻硬盘读出磁头、磁电阻随机存取存储器、自旋转移磁化反转与微波振荡器。自旋晶体管作为未来磁电子学或自旋电子学时代的基本元素,目前大都还处在概念型阶段,本文也将对几种自旋晶体管的大致原理作简要介绍。     

(CoFe)_(1-x)Ag_x颗粒巨磁电阻薄膜的磁折射效应研究

在线非接触测试巨磁电阻效应对磁电子器件的工业化生产具有重要的意义 .用红外光谱研究了 (CoFe) 1 -xAgx颗粒薄膜的磁折射效应 ,研究表明在红外波段 ,一级近似可以认为巨磁电阻比值与磁折射变化率成正比 ,可以利用磁折射效应作为在线非接触工具测量与自旋散射相关的巨磁电阻效应 .     

From microelectronics to spintronics and magnonics

In this review, the recent developments in microelectronics, spintronics, and magnonics have been summarized and compared. Firstly, the history of the spintronics has been briefly reviewed. Moreover, the recent development of magnonics such as magnon-mediated current drag effect (MCDE), magnon valve effect (MVE), magnon junction effect (MJE), magnon blocking effect (MBE), magnon-mediated nonlocal spin Hall magnetoresistance (MNSMR), magnon-transfer torque (MTT) effect, and magnon resonant tunneling (MRT) effect, magnon skin effect (MSE), etc., existing in magnon junctions or magnon heterojunctions, have been summarized and their potential applications in memory and logic devices, etc., are prospected, from which we can see a promising future for spintronics and magnonics beyond micro-electronics.     

Spin-polarized transport through the T-shaped double quantum dots

Using the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function and equation-of-motion technique, this paper investigates the spin-polarized transport properties of the T-shaped double quantum dots （DQD） coupled to two ferromagnetic leads. There are both Fano effect and Kondo effect in the system, and due to their mutual interaction, the density of states, the current, and the differential conductance of the system depend sensitively on the spin-polarized strength. Thus the obtained results show that this system is provided with excellent spin filtering property, which indicates that this system may be a candidate for spin valve transistors in the spintronics.     

Magnetic Properties of Metallic Multilayered Systems

Hyperfine Interactions - The giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect was an epoch-making discovery in the field of magnetic materials research. In this article, studies on magnetic multilayered...