{
  "id": "cond-mat/0601291",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2006-01-13T15:36:53.000Z",
  "updated": "2006-05-30T11:46:44.000Z",
  "title": "Influence of Roughness and Disorder on Tunneling Magnetoresistance",
  "authors": [
    "P. X. Xu",
    "V. M. Karpan",
    "K. Xia",
    "M. Zwierzycki",
    "I. Marushchenko",
    "P. J. Kelly"
  ],
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. B 73, 180402(R) (2006)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.73.180402",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.mtrl-sci"
  ],
  "abstract": "A systematic, quantitative study of the effect of interface roughness and disorder on the magnetoresistance of FeCo$|$vacuum$|$FeCo magnetic tunnel junctions is presented based upon parameter-free electronic structure calculations. Surface roughness is found to have a very strong effect on the spin-polarized transport while that of disorder in the leads (leads consisting of a substitutional alloy) is weaker but still sufficient to suppress the huge tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) predicted for ideal systems.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2006-05-30T11:46:44.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "tunneling magnetoresistance",
      "parameter-free electronic structure calculations",
      "feco magnetic tunnel junctions",
      "ideal systems",
      "interface roughness"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}