Double-Barrier Magnetic Tunnel Junction

Precise Control of Interfacial Disorder

This quantum-well magnetic tunnel junction achieves stable resonant conductance oscillations by suppressing interfacial disorder.

Ma, Tianyi · Tao, Bingshan · Devaux, Xavier · Yang, Hongxin · Zuo, Yalu · Migot, Sylvie · Kurnosikov, Oleg V. · Vergnat, Michel · Han, Xiufeng · Lu, Yuan

ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2024

Advantages

Co incorporation of 2–4 monolayers reduces amplitude to one-third

Single Fe monolayer structural disorder completely suppresses oscillations

Fe₄N upper electrode significantly reduces oscillation amplitude

bcc Co upper electrode results in no change in QW oscillation