Tunneling Devices with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy Electrodes on Atomically Thin van der Waals Heterostructures

2017/10/30 by Hiroshi Idzuchi, Idzuchi, H., Tomohiro Taniguchi +5
Physics and Astronomy · Materials Science · #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Topological Materials and Phenomena #Graphene research and applications

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1710.10743

Abstract

We report the fabrication of perpendicular ferromagnetic electrodes for tunneling devices consist of van der Waals heterostructure. We found MgO/Co/Pt films on Hexagonal BN shows perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) with the easy axis perpendicular to the substrate. Vacuum annealing enhances the perpendicular anisotropy. The easy axis along the perpendicular direction persists up to room temperature with the Pt layer thickness ranges from 1.5 to 5 nm. We employed the PMA electrodes to construct tunneling devices on graphene and monolayer WSe2, where spin injection characteristics and field effect transistor behavior were demonstrated without strong Schottky barrier formation.

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