Czubak, Dietmar and Gaucher, Samuel and Oppermann, Lars and Herfort, Jens and Zollner, Klaus and Fabian, Jaroslav and Grahn, Holger T. and Ramsteiner, Manfred (2020) Electronic and magnetic properties of alpha-FeGe2 films embedded in vertical spin valve devices. PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, 4 (10): 104415. ISSN 2475-9953,
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We studied metastable alpha-FeGe2, a layered tetragonal material, embedded as a spacer layer in spin valve structures with ferromagnetic Fe3Si and Co2FeSi electrodes. For both types of electrodes, spin valve operation is demonstrated with A metallic transport behavior of the alpha-FeGe2 spacer layer. The spin valve signals are found to increase with both temperature and spacer thickness, which is discussed in terms of a decreasing magnetic coupling strength between the ferromagnetic bottom and top electrodes. The temperature-dependent resistances of the spin valve structures exhibit characteristic features, which are explained by ferromagnetic phase transitions between 55 and 110 K. The metallic transport characteristics as well as the low-temperature ferromagnetism are found to be consistent with the results of first-principles calculations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE; MAGNETORESISTANCE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; GEOMETRY; |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| Divisions: | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Jaroslav Fabian |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2021 13:31 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2021 13:31 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/43516 |
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