Spin blockade in ferromagnetic nanocontacts

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 3534-3536

  Zhuravlev, M Ye ^a   Tsymbal, E Y ^a   Jaswal, S S ^a   Vedyayev, A V ^b,c   Dieny, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; FERMI LEVEL; MAGNETORESISTANCE;

MAGNETIC NANOCONTACTS; SPIN BLOCKADE;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0242415169     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1622986     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. B. J. van Wees, H. van Houten, C. W. J. Beenakker, J. G. Williams, L. P. Kouwenhowen, D. van der Marel, and C. T. Foxon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 848 (1988).
2. J. I. Pascual, J. Méndez, J. Gómez-Herrero, A. M. Baró, N. García, and V. T. Binh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1852 (1993).
3. L. Olesen, E. Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaad, F. Besenbacher, J. Schiøtz, P. Stoltze, K. W. Jacobsen, and J. K. Nørskov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2251 (1994).
4. J. M. Krans, J. M. van Ruitenbeek, V. V. Fisun, I. K. Yanson, and L. J. de Jongh, Nature (London) 375, 767 (1995).
5. R. Landauer, IBM J. Res. Dev. 32, 306 (1988).
6. L. I. Glazman, G. B. Lesovik, D. E. Khmelnitskii, and R. I. Shekhter, JETP Lett. 48, 238 (1988).
7. T. Ono, Y. Ooka, and H. Miyajima, Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 1622 (1999).
8. F. Elhoussine, S. Mátéfi-Tempfli, A. Encinas, and L. Piraux, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 1681 (2002).
9. F. Komori and K. Nakatsuji, Mater. Sci. Eng., B 84, 102 (2001).
10. C.-S. Yang, J. Thiltges, B. Doudin, and M. Johnson, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 14, L765 (2002).
11. W. E. Picket and J. S. Moodera, Phys. Today 5, 39 (2001).
12. M. Ye. Zhuravlev, H. O. Lutz, and A. V. Vedyayev, Phys. Rev. B 63, 174409 (2001).
13. A. Weisshaar, J. Lary, S. M. Goodnick, and V. K. Tripathi, J. Appl. Phys. 70, 355 (1991); A. L. Sakhnovich, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 247, 410 (2000).
14. A. Weisshaar, J. Lary, S. M. Goodnick, and V. K. Tripathi, J. Appl. Phys. 70, 355 (1991); A. L. Sakhnovich, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 247, 410 (2000).
15. F. Kassubek, C. A. Stafford, and H. Grabert, Phys. Rev. B 59, 7560 (1999).
16. H. Imamura, N. Kobayashi, S. Takahashi, and S. Maekawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1003 (2000).
17. 3.
18. N. García, M. Muñoz, and Y.-W. Zhao, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2923 (1999).
19. A. K. Zvezdin and A. F. Popkov, JETP Lett. 71, 209 (2000).
20. L. R. Tagirov, B. P. Vodopyanov, and K. B. Efetov, Phys. Rev. B 65, 214419 (2002).
21. H. D. Chopra and S. Z. Hua, Phys. Rev. B 66, 020403 (2002).