Effect of capping layer on the spin accumulation and magnetoresistance of a current-perpendicular-to-plane spin valve

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Bala Kumar, S ^a   Tan, S G ^a   Jalil, M B A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RELAXATION; MAGNETIZATION; OPTIMIZATION;

FERROMAGNETIC LAYER; NONMAGNETIC CAPPING LAYER (NCL); SPIN RELAXATION;

MAGNETORESISTANCE;

EID: 34247381672     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2722677     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. T. Kimura, J. Hamrle, and Y. Otani, IEEE Trans. Magn. 41, 2600 (2005).
2. Alexey A. Kovalev, Arne Brataas, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Phys. Rev. B 66, 224424 (2002).
3. J. Xiao, A. Zangwill, and M. D. Stiles, Phys. Rev. B 73, 054428 (2006).
4. Y. Tserkovnyak, A. Brataas, G. E. W. Bauer, and B. I. Halperin, Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 1375 (2005).
5. Y. Jiang, T. Nozaki, S. Abe, T. Ochiai, A. Hirohata, N. Tezuka, and K. Inomata, Nat. Mater. 3, 361 (2004).
6. S. Urazhdin, Norman O. Birge, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and J. Bass, Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 1516 (2004).
7. Y. Jiang, S. Abe, T. Ochiai, T. Nozaki, A. Hirohata, N. Tezuka, and K. Inomata, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 167204 (2004).
8. P. C. van Son, H. van Kempen, and P. Wyder, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2271 (1987).
9. S. Agrawal, M. B. A. Jalil, S. G. Tan, K. L. Teo, and T. Liew, Phys. Rev. B 72, 075352 (2005).
10. E. I. Rashba, Phys. Rev. B 62, R16267 (2000).
11. T. Valet and A. Fert, Phys. Rev. B 48, 7099 (1993).
12. D. L. Smith and R. N. Silver, Phys. Rev. B 64, 045323 (2001).
13. R. J. Elliott, Phys. Rev. 96, 266 (1954).
14. Y. Yafet, Solid State Phys. 14, 2 (1963).
15. M. B. A. Jalil, S. G. Tan, S. Bala Kumar, and Seongtae Bae, Phys. Rev. B 73, 134417 (2006).
16. S. G. Tan, M. B. A. Jalil, S. Bala Kumar, G. C. Han, and Y. K. Zheng, J. Appl. Phys. 100, 063703 (2006).