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LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS
卷 37, 期 6, 页码 489-495出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3620864
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aluminium alloys; chromium alloys; cobalt alloys; electric resistance; electronic density of states; ferromagnetic materials; lead; magnetic thin films; magnetic tunnelling; metal-insulator boundaries; semimetallic thin films; semimetals; spin polarised transport; superconducting thin films; superconducting transitions; superconductive tunnelling
The giant spin blocking of tunnel currents discovered by us (Low. Temp. Phys. 36, 186 (2010)) is investigated theoretically and experimentally in ferromagnet F (Co2CrAl)-insulator I-superconductor S (Pb) heterostructures with a wide range of specific resistances (10(-7)-10(-4) Omega . cm(2)). The magnitude of this effect is found to depend on the specific resistance of the junction in the normal state and on recombination spin depolarization. A theoretical model which provides an adequate description of the tunnelling of spin-polarized electrons in F-I-S junctions is proposed. It is found that the normalized conductivity sigma(FS) of an F-I-S tunnel junction can be considerably lower than the fundamental normalized conductivity sigma(NS) of an N-I-S junction (where N is a normal metal). The proposed model is used to estimate the degree of spin polarization p of films of the ferromagnetic semimetal Co2CrAl (Heusler alloy) with B2-and L2(1)-type crystal structures, which is close to 1 (p approximate to 0.97). The temperature dependence sigma(FS)(T) of a Co2CrAl-I-Pb F-I-S tunnel junction is studied experimentally. A theoretical model is proposed which provides an adequate description of the temperature behavior of the normalized conductivity sigma(FS)(T) with features of spin-polarized tunnelling taken into account. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3620864]
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