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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Communications Année : 2014

Localized states in advanced dielectrics from the vantage of spin- and symmetry-polarized tunnelling across MgO

Daniel Lacour
François Montaigne
Michel Hehn

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Research on advanced materials such as multiferroic perovskites underscores promising applications, yet studies on these materials rarely address the impact of defects on the nominally expected materials property. Here, we revisit the comparatively simple oxide MgO as the model material system for spin-polarized solid-state tunnelling studies. We present a defect-mediated tunnelling potential landscape of localized states owing to explicitly identified defect species, against which we examine the bias and temperature dependence of magnetotransport. By mixing symmetry-resolved transport channels, a localized state may alter the effective barrier height for symmetry-resolved charge carriers, such that tunnelling magnetoresistance decreases most with increasing temperature when that state is addressed electrically. Thermal excitation promotes an occupancy switchover from the ground to the excited state of a defect, which impacts these magnetotransport characteristics. We thus resolve contradictions between experiment and theory in this otherwise canonical spintronics system, and propose a new perspective on defects in dielectrics.

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hal-01282617 , version 1 (04-03-2016)

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F. Schleicher, U. Halisdemir, Daniel Lacour, M. Gallart, S. Boukari, et al.. Localized states in advanced dielectrics from the vantage of spin- and symmetry-polarized tunnelling across MgO. Nature Communications, 2014, 5, ⟨10.1038/ncomms5547⟩. ⟨hal-01282617⟩
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