Insight into spin transport in oxide heterostructures from interface-resolved magnetic mapping

Bruno, F. Y.; Grisolia, M. N.; Visani, C.; Valencia, S.; Varela, M.; Abrudan, R.; Tornos, J.; Rivera-Calzada, A.; Ünal, A. A.; Pennycook, S. J.; Sefrioui, Z.; Leon, C.; Villegas, J. E.; Santamaria, J.; Barthélémy, A.; Bibes, M.

doi:10.1038/ncomms7306

Title: Insight into spin transport in oxide heterostructures from interface-resolved magnetic mapping

Journal Article · Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7306· OSTI ID:1265457

Bruno, F. Y. ^[1]; Grisolia, M. N. ^[1]; Visani, C. ^[1]; Valencia, S. ^[2]; Varela, M. ^[3];

^[4]; Tornos, J. ^[5]; Rivera-Calzada, A. ^[5]; Ünal, A. A. ^[2]; Pennycook, S. J. ^[6]; Sefrioui, Z. ^[5]; Leon, C. ^[5]; Villegas, J. E. ^[1]; Santamaria, J. ^[5]; Barthélémy, A. ^[1]; Bibes, M. ^[1]

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Thales, Palaiseau (France). Unite Mixte de Physique and Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), (Germany). German Research Centre for Materials and Energy
Univ. Complutense Madrid (Spain). Dept. Fisica Aplicada III; Unidad Asociada CSIC/Univ. Complutense Madrid (Spain). Lab. de Heterostructuras con aplicacion en Spintronica; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science and Technology
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), (Germany). German Research Centre for Materials and Energy; Ruhr Univ., Bochum (Germany). Inst. fuer Experimentalphysik/Festkoeperphysik
Univ. Complutense Madrid (Spain). Dept. Fisica Aplicada III; Unidad Asociada CSIC/Univ. Complutense Madrid (Spain). Lab. de Heterostructuras con aplicacion en Spintronica
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering

At interfaces between complex oxides, electronic, orbital and magnetic reconstructions may produce states of matter absent from the materials involved, offering novel possibilities for electronic and spintronic devices. Here we show that magnetic reconstruction has a strong influence on the interfacial spin selectivity, a key parameter controlling spin transport in magnetic tunnel junctions. In epitaxial heterostructures combining layers of antiferromagnetic LaFeO₃ (LFO) and ferromagnetic La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ (LSMO), we find that a net magnetic moment is induced in the first few unit planes of LFO near the interface with LSMO. Using X-ray photoemission electron microscopy, we show that the ferromagnetic domain structure of the manganite electrodes is imprinted into the antiferromagnetic tunnel barrier, endowing it with spin selectivity. Finally, we find that the spin arrangement resulting from coexisting ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions strongly influences the tunnel magnetoresistance of LSMO/LFO/LSMO junctions through competing spin-polarization and spin-filtering effects.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

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Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 6; ISSN 2041-1723

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