Termination layer compensated tunnelling magnetoresistance in ferrimagnetic Heusler compounds with high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Heusler alloy thin films with a distorted tetragonal structure have potential spintronics applications given their bulk perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Here, the authors demonstrate large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Mn3Ge thin films accompanied by negative tunnelling magnetoresistance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jaewoo Jeong, Yari Ferrante, Sergey V. Faleev, Mahesh G. Samant, Claudia Felser, Stuart S. P. Parkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10276