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利用界面工程增强铁磁材料中的超电流

Enhancement of supercurrent through ferromagnetic materials by interface engineering

Swapna Sindhu Mishra, Robert M. Klaes, Joshua Willard, Reza Loloee, Norman O. Birge

摘要:

含有铁磁材料的约瑟夫森结表现出有趣的物理特性,并显示出作为超导逻辑和存储器的电路元件的前景。对于存储器应用,结的性质应该通过改变结内部的磁配置来控制。为了实现良好的磁开关特性,应该选择软磁材料,例如NiFe(坡莫合金);然而,NiFe在约瑟夫森结中表现出差的超电流传输。在这项工作中,我们把薄层的Ni两侧的NiFe和表征的Ni/NiFe/Ni三层作为Ni和NiFe厚度的函数的磁行为和超电流传输特性。使用Ni厚度为0.4 nm,我们发现,磁开关行为的三层没有严重退化相对于平原NiFe,而在$π$状态的三层约瑟夫森结的最大超电流增加了四个相对于NiFe结的因素。我们推测这种超电流的增强是由于Cu/Ni和Cu/NiFe界面不同的自旋相关输运性质。

英文摘要:

Josephson junctions containing ferromagnetic materials exhibit interesting physics and show promise as circuit elements for superconducting logic and memory. For memory applications, the properties of the junction should be controllable by changing the magnetic configuration inside the junction. To achieve good magnetic switching properties, one should choose a soft magnetic material such as NiFe (permalloy); however, NiFe exhibits poor supercurrent transmission in Josephson junctions. In this work we put thin layers of Ni on either side of the NiFe and characterize the magnetic behavior and supercurrent transmission properties of the Ni/NiFe/Ni trilayers as a function of Ni and NiFe thicknesses. Using a Ni thickness of 0.4 nm, we find that the magnetic switching behavior of the trilayers is not severely degraded relative to plain NiFe, while the maximum supercurrent in the $π$-state of the trilayer Josephson junctions is increased by a factor of four relative to that of NiFe junctions. We speculate that the supercurrent enhancement is due to the different spin-dependent transport properties of the Cu/Ni and Cu/NiFe interfaces.

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