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arXiv 1706.09591cond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.mes-hall
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铁磁金属-石墨烯界面接触电阻的成因

Origin of Contact Resistance at Ferromagnetic Metal-Graphene Interfaces

Khoong Hong Khoo, Wei Sun Leong, John T. L. Thong, Su Ying Quek

摘要:

边缘接触几何形状被认为在大多数非铁磁金属-石墨烯界面中产生超低接触电阻,这是由于它们的大的金属-石墨烯耦合强度。在这里,我们使用单层和少层石墨烯来检查边缘与表面接触的铁磁金属-石墨烯界面(即镍-和钴-石墨烯界面)的接触电阻。理论和实验之间获得了良好的定性一致。特别是,在理论和实验中,我们观察到边缘接触的铁磁金属-石墨烯界面的接触电阻远低于表面接触的,对于所有研究的器件,特别是对于单层石墨烯系统。我们表明,这种电阻的差异不是由于金属-石墨烯耦合强度的差异,我们使用哈密顿矩阵元素进行量化。相反,表面接触中更大的接触电阻是由界面处的自旋过滤引起的,这与边缘接触的情况相反,其中两个自旋都被传输。居里温度TC以外的温度依赖性电阻测量表明,自旋自由度确实是重要的实验测量的接触电阻。这些结果表明,有可能通过改变TC附近的温度来引起接触电阻的大的变化,从而为基于自旋的温控开关铺平了道路。

英文摘要:

Edge contact geometries are thought to yield ultralow contact resistances in most non-ferromagnetic metal-graphene interfaces owing to their large metal-graphene coupling strengths. Here, we examine the contact resistance of edge- versus surface-contacted ferromagnetic metal-graphene interfaces (i.e. nickel- and cobalt-graphene interfaces) using both single-layer and few-layer graphene. Good qualitative agreement is obtained between theory and experiment. In particular, in both theory and experiment, we observe that the contact resistance of edge-contacted ferromagnetic metal-graphene interfaces is much lower than that of surface-contacted ones, for all devices studied and especially for the single-layer graphene systems. We show that this difference in resistance is not due to differences in the metal-graphene coupling strength, which we quantify using Hamiltonian matrix elements. Instead, the larger contact resistance in surface contacts results from spin filtering at the interface, in contrast to the edge-contacted case where both spins are transmitted. Temperature-dependent resistance measurements beyond the Curie temperature TC show that the spin degree of freedom is indeed important for the experimentally measured contact resistance. These results show that it is possible to induce a large change in contact resistance by changing the temperature in the vicinity of TC, thus paving the way for temperature-controlled switches based on spin.

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