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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 83, Issue 17, Pages 3534-3536Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1622986
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Using a free-electron model and a linear response theory we investigate spin-dependent electronic transport in magnetic nanocontacts in the ballistic regime of conduction. We emphasize the fact that in atomic-size ferromagnetic contacts it is possible to achieve the conductance value of e(2)/h, which implies a fully spin-polarized electric current. We explore some consequences of this phenomenon. In particular, we show that the presence of a nonmagnetic region in the nanocontact separating two ferromagnetic electrodes can lead to a spin blockade resulting in very large values of magnetoresistance. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
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