2018年第65回応用物理学会春季学術講演会

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2018年3月17日(土) 16:00 〜 18:00 P10 (ベルサール高田馬場)

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[17p-P10-89] Inverse spin valve effect in nano-scale Si-based spin-valve devices

〇(DC)Dinhhiep Duong1、Masaaki Tanaka2、Nam Hai Pham1,2 (1.Tokyo Inst. Tech、2.Univ. of Tokyo)

キーワード:Si spintronics, spin valve effect, Nano-scale channel

The silicon (Si) based spin-MOSFET is considered to be one of the most promising candidates for spintronics device. In fact, spin injection into microns of Si channels by using the three terminal Hanle effect or the four-terminal spin-valve effect has been demonstrated up to 150 K with a small spin-valve ratio (~ 0.1%) and a small spin-dependent output voltage below 1 mV. Recently, we have fabricated 20 nm-long Si channel spin-valve devices with an MgO/Ge double tunnel barrier, in which we observed a clear spin-valve effect up to 0.8% and spin-dependent output voltage of 13 mV, by using electron beam (EB) evaporation. In this work, by using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) to grow a Fe/MgO/Ge stack as injector / detector, we have significantly improved the spin-valve effect signal and the spin output voltage. We observed a large spin-valve effect with DR up to 57 kΩ, corresponding to DR/R = 3%. By systematically investigating the bias dependence, temperature dependence, and magnetic field direction dependence of the magnetoresistance (MR), we have confirmed that the observed signal is not caused by the anisotropic magnetoresistance of the Fe ferromagnetic electrodes, or the tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance at the Fe/MgO interface, but it is caused by the spin transport through the nano-scale Si channel. We found that the sign of the spin-valve effect is reversed at low temperatures, suggesting the possibility of the spin-blockade effect of defect states in the MgO/Ge tunneling barrier. The highest spin-dependent output voltage is 20 mV at the bias voltage of 0.9V at 15 K, which is the highest value reported so far in lateral spin-valve devices. The MR ratio decreases with increasing the channel length, but remains higher than 1% even when the channel length is as long as 6 µm. Our result is an important step towards the realization of nano-scale spin-MOSFETs.