MagnetoResistance of graphene-based spin valves

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2007-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/0710.2019v1

Physical Review B {\bf 76}, 205435 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

10 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.205435

We study the magnetoresistance of spin-valve devices using graphene as a non-magnetic material to connect ferromagnetic leads. As a preliminary step we first study the conductivity of a graphene strip connected to metallic contacts for a variety of lead parameters, and demonstrate that the resulting conductivity is rather insensitive to them. We then compute the conductivity of the spin-valve device in the parallel and antiparallel spin polarization configurations, and find that it depends only weakly on the relative spin orientations of the leads, so that the magnetoresistance $MR$ of the system is very small. The smallness of $MR$ is a consequence of the near independence of the graphene conductivity from the electronic details of the leads. Our results indicate that, although graphene has properties that make it attractive for spintronic devices, the performance of an graphene-based spin-valve is likely to be poor.

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