Characterization of the Barrier Layer in Al_1-xCo_x/{Al_1-xCo_x-Oxide}/Al Tunnel Junctions

Fast Switching in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with Double Barrier Layer

The impact of barrier height distributions in tunnel junctions

We demonstrate that including continuous and discrete tunnel barrier height distributions in otherwise traditional tunneling formalisms enables straightforward modeling of several phenomena important to tunneling. Random barrier height inhomogeneities significantly impact the tunneling conductance, as evidenced by ideal tunneling models extracting faulty barrier parameters, with the incurred er...

Shot noise in magnetic double-barrier tunnel junctions

T. Szczepański, V. K. Dugaev, 2 J. Barnaś∗,3 J. P. Cascales, and F. G. Aliev Department of Physics, Rzeszów University of Technology, al. Powstańców Warszawy 6, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland Department of Physics and CFIF, Instituto Superior Técnico, TU Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Pol...

Controlling shot noise in double-barrier magnetic tunnel junctions.

We demonstrate that shot noise in Fe/MgO/Fe/MgO/Fe double-barrier magnetic tunnel junctions is determined by the relative magnetic configuration of the junction and also by the asymmetry of the barriers. The proposed theoretical model, based on sequential tunneling through the system and including spin relaxation, successfully accounts for the experimental observations for bias voltages below 0...

0-pi Josephson tunnel junctions with ferromagnetic barrier.

We fabricated high quality Nb/Al2O3/Ni(0.6)Cu(0.4)/Nb superconductor-insulator-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson tunnel junctions. Using a ferromagnetic layer with a steplike thickness, we obtain a 0-pi junction, with equal lengths and critical currents of 0 and pi parts. The ground state of our 330 microm (1.3lambda(J)) long junction corresponds to a spontaneous vortex of supercurrent pinne...