Giant magnetoresistance in semiconductor / granular film heterostructures with cobalt nanoparticles

Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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We have studied the electron transport in SiO${}_2$(Co)/GaAs and SiO${}_2$(Co)/Si heterostructures, where the SiO${}_2$(Co) structure is the granular SiO${}_2$ film with Co nanoparticles. In SiO${}_2$(Co)/GaAs heterostructures giant magnetoresistance effect is observed. The effect has positive values, is expressed, when electrons are injected from the granular film into the GaAs semiconductor, and has the temperature-peak type character. The temperature location of the effect depends on the Co concentration and can be shifted by the applied electrical field. For the SiO${}_2$(Co)/GaAs heterostructure with 71 at.% Co the magnetoresistance reaches 1000 ($10^5$ %) at room temperature. On the contrary, for SiO${}_2$(Co)/Si heterostructures magnetoresistance values are very small (4%) and for SiO${}_2$(Co) films the magnetoresistance has an opposite value. High values of the magnetoresistance effect in SiO${}_2$(Co)/GaAs heterostructures have been explained by magnetic-field-controlled process of impact ionization in the vicinity of the spin-dependent potential barrier formed in the semiconductor near the interface. Kinetic energy of electrons, which pass through the barrier and trigger the avalanche process, is reduced by the applied magnetic field. This electron energy suppression postpones the onset of the impact ionization to higher electric fields and results in the giant magnetoresistance. The spin-dependent potential barrier is due to the exchange interaction between electrons in the accumulation electron layer in the semiconductor and $d$-electrons of Co.

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