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通过MgO势垒泵浦laser激发自旋

Pumping laser excited spins through MgO barriers

Ulrike Martens, Jakob Walowski, Thomas Schumann, Maria Mansurova, Alexander Boehnke, Torsten Huebner, Günter Reiss, Andy Thomas, Markus Münzenberg

摘要:

研究了MgO基磁性隧道结中的隧道磁塞贝克效应。电极由具有面内磁各向异性的CoFeB组成。使用激光加热来产生跨越MTJ层堆叠的电压的温度梯度。使用这种方法,可以在微米长度尺度上控制温度:在这里,我们研究TMS电压和TMS效应如何取决于所施加的激光光斑的大小、位置和强度。在这项研究中,跨结创建了各种不同的温度分布。我们记录的二维地图上的激光光斑的位置和相应的计算TMS值的依赖加热产生的电压。电压的值和符号发生变化,从直接在中心加热MTJ时的大正值到加热边缘上的结时的小值,甚至是加热远离结的样品时的小负值。这些过零点导致非常高的计算TMS比率。我们的系统分析表明,温度梯度的分布是必不可少的,以实现高电压信号和合理的TMS比。此外,边缘上的伪影产生误导性结果,但也为自旋电子器件中的自旋电子学开辟了更复杂的加热场景的进一步可能性。

英文摘要:

We present a study of the tunnel magneto-Seebeck (TMS) effect in MgO based magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). The electrodes consist of CoFeB with in-plane magnetic anisotropy. The temperature gradients which generate a voltage across the MTJs layer stack are created using laser heating. Using this method, the temperature can be controlled on the micrometer length scale: here, we investigate, how both, the TMS voltage and the TMS effect, depend on the size, position and intensity of the applied laser spot. For this study, a large variety of different temperature distributions was created across the junction. We recorded two-dimensional maps of voltages generated by heating in dependence of the laser spot position and the corresponding calculated TMS values. The voltages change in value and sign, from large positive values when heating the MTJ directly in the centre to small values when heating the junction on the edges and even small negative values when heating the sample away from the junction. Those zero crossings lead to very high calculated TMS ratios. Our systematic analysis shows, that the distribution of the temperature gradient is essential, to achieve high voltage signals and reasonable resulting TMS ratios. Furthermore, artefacts on the edges produce misleading results, but also open up further possibilities of more complex heating scenarios for spincaloritronics in spintronic devices.

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