Focus Session: Spin-dependent Tunneling and High Magnetoresistance Devices

Presentations

• Optimizing Co concentration in Co$_{x}$Fe$_{1-x}$/MgO/Co$_{x}$Fe$_{1-x}$ magnetic tunnel junctions to maximize tunneling magnetoresistance

  ORAL

  March 20, 2013, 11:15 AM – March 20, 2013, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Jonathan Trinastic

    • Department of Physics and Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

  • Yan Wang

    • Department of Physics and Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

  • Hai-Ping Cheng

    • Department of Physics and Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

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• Large Magnetoresistance of MnBi/Bi/MnBi Spin Valve

  ORAL

  March 20, 2013, 11:27 AM – March 20, 2013, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Nabil Al-Aqtash

    • University of Nebraska at Omaha

  • Khaldoun Tarawneh

    • Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan

  • Renat Sabirianov

    • University of Nebraska at Omaha

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• Self-Organized Defects of Half-Metallic Nanowires in MgO-Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

  ORAL

  March 20, 2013, 11:39 AM – March 20, 2013, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Masayoshi Seike

    • Grad. School of Eng. Sci., Osaka Univ.

  • Tetsuya Fukushima

    • Grad. School of Eng. Sci., Osaka Univ.

  • Kazunori Sato

    • Grad. School of Eng. Sci., Osaka Univ.

  • Hiroshi Katayama-Yoshida

    • Grad. School of Eng. Sci., Osaka Univ.

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• Mechanisms of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and interlayer exchange coupling in MgO-based tunnel junctions

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 20, 2013, 11:51 AM – March 20, 2013, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Mairbek Chshiev

    • SPINTEC, CEA/CNRS/UJF-Grenoble 1, INAC, 38054 Grenoble, France

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• Point-contact study of soft magnetic CoSiBFeNb amorphous alloys

  ORAL

  March 20, 2013, 12:27 PM – March 20, 2013, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Heidi Seinige

    • University of Texas at Austin, USA

  • Cheng Wang

    • University of Texas at Austin, USA

  • Valerii Tsoi

    • Institute of Solid State Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia

  • Maxim Tsoi

    • University of Texas at Austin, USA
    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Measurement of the transport spin polarization of Ag/Fe$_3$O$_4$ bilayers using point-contact Andreev reflection

  ORAL

  March 20, 2013, 12:39 PM – March 20, 2013, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Michael Osofsky

    • Naval Research Laboraotory

  • Priyanga Jayathilaka

    • Department of Physics, University of South Florida

  • Casey W. Miller

    • Department of Physics, University of South Florida
    • University of South Florida, Department of Physics

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• 3D Effect in Determination of Spin Polarization using Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy

  ORAL

  March 20, 2013, 12:51 PM – March 20, 2013, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Jessica Gifford

    • Arizona State University

  • Charles Snider

    • Arizona State University

  • Jonny Martinez

    • Arizona State University

  • Tingyong Chen

    • Arizona State University

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• Graphene-based magnetic tunnel junctions

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 20, 2013, 1:03 PM – March 20, 2013, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Enrique Cobas

    • Mater. Sci. and Tech. Div., US Naval Research Laboratory
    • Naval Research Laboratory

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• Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with a Graphene Tunnel Barrier

  ORAL

  March 20, 2013, 1:39 PM – March 20, 2013, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Wan Li

    • Cornell University

  • Dan Ralph

    • Cornell University
    • Cornell Univ

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• Magnetoresistance and negative differential resistance in Ni/Graphene/Ni vertical heterostructures driven by finite bias voltage: A first-principles study

  ORAL

  March 20, 2013, 1:51 PM – March 20, 2013, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Kamal K. Saha

    • University of Delaware, USA

  • Anders Blom

    • QuantumWise A/S, Denmark

  • Kristian S. Thygesen

    • Technical University of Denmark

  • Branislav K. Nikolic

    • University of Delaware, USA

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• Large spin accumulation due to spin-charge coupling across a break-junction

  ORAL

  March 20, 2013, 2:03 PM – March 20, 2013, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Shuhan Chen

    • Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Delaware

  • Han Zou

    • Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Delaware

  • Siu-Tat Chui

    • Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Delaware

  • Yi Ji

    • Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Delaware

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