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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 94: Spin-Dependent Transport Phenomena I (organized by MA)
TT 94.6: Talk
Thursday, March 19, 2015, 10:45–11:00, H 0112
Description of electron transport in multilayer systems using Boltzmann approach — •Ondřej Stejskal1, André Thiaville2, Shunsuke Fukami3, Hideo Ohno3, and Jaroslav Hamrle1 — 1IF, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic — 2LPS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay, France — 3CSIS/RIEC/WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Recent discoveries of spin current, spin Hall effect and Rashba effect have attracted a new interest in transport phenomena in multilayer systems. The Fuchs-Sondheimer theory that is based on the Boltzmann transport equation covers the transport phenomena in thin films. Though the paper was released in 1952, the theory is still being used with great success and is in a great agreement with experiments. We use this theory for the description of an in-plane current density in a multilayer system Ta/Pt/[Co/Ni]/Pt/Ta. The resistance of the multilayer is measured as the function of the thicknesses of individual layers. Using the Fuchs-Sondheimer model, we obtain the material and interface parameters of the layers and the current distribution in the sample. This is of a great importance for multilayers, as the spin phenomena, like spin Hall effect and spin-transfer torque, are proportional to current densities in the vicinity of the interface with ferromagnetic material. This work is partly supported by R&D Project for ICT Key Technology to Realize Future Society of MEXT.
[1] E. Sondheimer, Advances in Physics 1, 1 (1952)
[2] P. M. Haney, H.-W. Lee, K.-J. Lee, A. Manchon, M. D. Stiles, Physical Review B., 87, 174411 (2013)