Theory of electrical spin injection: Tunnel contacts as a solution of the conductivity mismatch problem

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2000-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0010473v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. B (rapid communications)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.62.R16267

Theory of electrical spin injection from a ferromagnetic (FM) metal into a normal (N) conductor is presented. We show that tunnel contacts (T) can dramatically increase spin injection and solve the problem of the mismatch in the conductivities of a FM metal and a semiconductor microstructure. We also present explicit expressions for the spin-valve resistance of FM-T-N- and FM-T-N-T-FM-junctions with tunnel contacts at the interfaces and show that the resistance includes both positive and negative contributions (Kapitza resistance and injection conductivity, respectively).

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