Half-metallic transport and spin-polarized tunneling through the van der Waals ferromagnet Fe${_4}$GeTe$_{2}$
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| author | Halder, Anita Nell, Declan Sihi, Antik Bajaj, Akash Sanvito, Stefano Droghetti, Andrea |
| author_facet | Halder, Anita Nell, Declan Sihi, Antik Bajaj, Akash Sanvito, Stefano Droghetti, Andrea |
| contents | The recent emergence of van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnets has opened new opportunities for designing spintronic devices. We theoretically investigate the coherent spin-dependent transport properties of the vdW ferromagnet Fe$_4$GeTe$_2$, by using density functional theory combined with the non-equilibrium Green's functions method. We find that the conductance in the direction perpendicular to the layers is half-metallic, namely it is entirely spin-polarized, as a result of the material's electronic structure. This characteristic persists from bulk to single layer, even under significant bias voltages, and it is little affected by spin-orbit coupling and electron correlation. Motivated by this observation, we then investigate the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect in an magnetic tunnel junction, which comprises two Fe$_4$GeTe$_2$ layers separated by the vdW gap acting as insulating barrier. We predict a TMR ratio of almost 500\%, which can be further boosted by increasing the number of Fe$_4$GeTe$_2$ layers in the junction. |
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| spellingShingle | Half-metallic transport and spin-polarized tunneling through the van der Waals ferromagnet Fe${_4}$GeTe$_{2}$ Halder, Anita Nell, Declan Sihi, Antik Bajaj, Akash Sanvito, Stefano Droghetti, Andrea Materials Science The recent emergence of van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnets has opened new opportunities for designing spintronic devices. We theoretically investigate the coherent spin-dependent transport properties of the vdW ferromagnet Fe$_4$GeTe$_2$, by using density functional theory combined with the non-equilibrium Green's functions method. We find that the conductance in the direction perpendicular to the layers is half-metallic, namely it is entirely spin-polarized, as a result of the material's electronic structure. This characteristic persists from bulk to single layer, even under significant bias voltages, and it is little affected by spin-orbit coupling and electron correlation. Motivated by this observation, we then investigate the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect in an magnetic tunnel junction, which comprises two Fe$_4$GeTe$_2$ layers separated by the vdW gap acting as insulating barrier. We predict a TMR ratio of almost 500\%, which can be further boosted by increasing the number of Fe$_4$GeTe$_2$ layers in the junction. |
| title | Half-metallic transport and spin-polarized tunneling through the van der Waals ferromagnet Fe${_4}$GeTe$_{2}$ |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10195 |