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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/3/035301
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- NSF-China [10525418, 10734110, 10821403]
- 973 Program [2009CB929103]
- Research Grant Council of Hong Kong [HKU 7042/06P, HKU 10/CRF/08]
- Science Foundation of Northwest University [09NW29]
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Electronic transport in a graphene-based ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic junction is investigated by means of the Landauer-Buttiker formalism and the nonequilibrium Green function technique. For the zigzag edge case, the results show that the conductance is always larger than e(2)/h for the parallel configuration of lead magnetizations, but for the antiparallel configuration the conductance becomes zero because of the band-selective rule. Therefore, a magnetoresistance (MR) plateau emerges with the value 100% when the Fermi energy is located around the Dirac point. In addition, choosing narrower graphene ribbons can yield wider 100% MR plateaus and the length change of the central graphene region does not affect the 100% MR plateaus. Although the disorder will reduce the MR plateau, the plateau value can still be kept about 50% even in a large disorder strength case. In addition, when the magnetizations of the left and right leads have a relative angle, the conductance changes as a cosine function of the angle. What is more, for the armchair edge case, the MR is usually small. So, it is more favorable to fabricate a graphene-based spin valve device by using a zigzag edge graphene ribbon.
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