Magnetization dependent tunneling conductance of ferromagnetic barriers

Zhe Wang (), Ignacio Gutiérrez-Lezama, Dumitru Dumcenco, Nicolas Ubrig, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Enrico Giannini, Marco Gibertini and Alberto F. Morpurgo ()
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Zhe Wang: Xi’an Jiaotong University
Ignacio Gutiérrez-Lezama: University of Geneva
Dumitru Dumcenco: University of Geneva
Nicolas Ubrig: University of Geneva
Takashi Taniguchi: National Institute for Materials Science
Kenji Watanabe: National Institute for Materials Science
Enrico Giannini: University of Geneva
Marco Gibertini: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Alberto F. Morpurgo: University of Geneva

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract Recent experiments on van der Waals antiferromagnets have shown that measuring the temperature (T) and magnetic field (H) dependence of the conductance allows their magnetic phase diagram to be mapped. Similarly, experiments on ferromagnetic CrBr3 barriers enabled the Curie temperature to be determined at H = 0, but a precise interpretation of the magnetoconductance data at H ≠ 0 is conceptually more complex, because at finite H there is no well-defined phase boundary. Here we perform systematic transport measurements on CrBr3 barriers and show that the tunneling magnetoconductance depends on H and T exclusively through the magnetization M(H, T) over the entire temperature range investigated. The phenomenon is reproduced by the spin-dependent Fowler–Nordheim model for tunneling, and is a direct manifestation of the spin splitting of the CrBr3 conduction band. Our analysis unveils a new approach to probe quantitatively different properties of atomically thin ferromagnetic insulators related to their magnetization by performing simple conductance measurements.

Date: 2021
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