Using a hybrid superconducting-ferromagnetic tip as a magnetic scanning tunneling microscope

Details Using a hybrid superconducting-ferromagnetic tip as a magnetic scanning tunneling microscope Using a hybrid superconducting-ferromagnetic tip as a magnetic scanning tunneling microscope

2002-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203311v1

Physica E 15, 88 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

12 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S1386-9477(02)00461-7

Approaching a two-component tip made of a superconductor (S) and a ferromagnet (F) from a magnetic sample allows for two distinct tunneling processes between the ferromagnets, through S: i) Charge and spin are conserved; ii) Charge and spin are reversed, e.g. a Cooper pair flows from S, one electron going into F, the other into the sample. At subgap voltages, this allows two currents to flow from the tip : one is insensitive to the spin polarizations and allows for surface topography, the other directly tracks the relative spin polarizations of F and the sample. The whole device acts as a STM sensitive to the spin polarization at the Fermi level (MSTM). Its sensitivity is studied and optimized with respect to the tip geometry.

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