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The magnetocurrent of magnetic tunnel transistors with spin-valve base structures is found to be nearly insensitive to whether the spacer layer material in the spin valve is Cu or Au. By contrast the in-plane magnetoresistance of the same spin valves differs by almost a factor of two. Furthermore, the transfer ratio of the transistor structure is an order of magnitude lower for Au compared to Cu spacer layers. We attribute these different behaviors to the significant role of spin-dependent interface scattering for electrons near the Fermi energy but to much weaker such scattering for hot electrons in the energy range considered (~1-2eV).
By: Sebastiaan van Dijken, Xin Jiang, Stuart S. P. Parkin
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, volume 82, (no 5), pages 775-7 in 2003
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