Room-Temperature Spin Filtering in Metallic Ferromagnet–Multilayer Graphene–Ferromagnet Junctions
ACS Nano(2016)
Abstract
We report room-temperature negative magnetoresistance in ferromagnet–graphene–ferromagnet (FM|Gr|FM) junctions with minority spin polarization exceeding 80%, consistent with predictions of strong minority spin filtering. We fabricated arrays of such junctions via chemical vapor deposition of multilayer graphene on lattice-matched single-crystal NiFe(111) films and standard photolithographic patterning and etching techniques. The junctions exhibit metallic transport behavior, low resistance, and the negative magnetoresistance characteristic of a minority spin filter interface throughout the temperature range 10 to 300 K. We develop a device model to incorporate the predicted spin filtering by explicitly treating a metallic minority spin channel with spin current conversion and a tunnel barrier majority spin channel and extract spin polarization of at least 80% in the graphene layer in our structures. The junctions also show antiferromagnetic coupling, consistent with several recent predictions. The methods...
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Key words
graphene,magnetoresistance,spin filtering
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