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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 63: Poster II (Surface Magnetism/ Magnetic Imaging/ Topological Insulators/ Spin Structures and Magnetic Phase Transitions/ Graphene/ Magnetic Thin Films/ Magnetic Semiconductors/ Magnetic Half-metals and Oxides/ Spin-dependent Transport/ Spin Excitations and Spin Torque/ Spin Injection and Spin Currents in Heterostructures/ Spintronics/ Magnetic Storage and Applications)

MA 63.77: Poster

Friday, March 18, 2011, 11:00–14:00, P2

Calculations of spin dependent transport in MnAs — •Michael Czerner and Christian Heiliger — I. Physikalisches Institut, Justus Liebig University Giessen, D-35392, Germany

Magnetic MnAs nanoclusters can be grown on a GaAs substrate in a controlled manner [1]. Such structures can be used to construct planar magnetic devices for spintronic applications. We perform ab initio calculations by means of the non-equilibrium Keldysh formalism implemented in the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Green's function method [2]. We study the spindependent transport of MnAs in the hexagonal NiAs structure along different crystallographic directions. Furthermore we discuss in detail the transport through interfaces formed by two MnAs clusters with different magnetic domains. We found a very large magnetoresistance ratio above 200% while the spin polarization is low, which is originated by the different Fermi surface topologies of the two spin channels. Furthermore we study the transport properties in a tunnel junction geometry with MnAs as lead material.

[1] S. Ito, S. Hara, T. Wakatsuki and T. Fukui, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 243117 (2009) [2] C. Heiliger, M. Czerner, B. Yu. Yavorsky, I. Mertig, M. D. Stiles, J. Appl. Phys. 103, 07A709 (2008)