Tunnel Contacts for Spin Injection into Silicon: The Si-Co Interface with and without a MgO Tunnel Barrier - A Study by High-Resolution Rutherford Backscattering
Reviewartikel, 2012

In order to obtain high spin injection efficiency, a ferromagnet-semiconducor Schottky contact must be of high crystalline quality. This is particularly important in the case of ferromagnet-silicon interfaces, since these elements tend to mix and form silicides. In this study Co-Si (100) interfaces were prepared in three different ways: by evaporation at room temperature, low temperature (-60°C), and with Sb as surfactant, and their interface structures were analyzed by high-resolution RBS (HRBS). In all cases more or less strong in-diffusion of Co with subsequent silicide formation was observed. In order to prevent the mixing of Co and Si, ultra thin MgO tunnel barriers were introduced in-between them. In situ HRBS characterization confirms that the MgO films were very uniform and prevented the mixing of the Si substrate with deposited Co and Fe films effectively, even at 450 °C.

Författare

Saroj Prasad Dash

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

D. Goll

Hochschule Aalen

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

P. Kopold

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

H.D. Carstanjen

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

1687-8434 (ISSN) 1687-8442 (eISSN)

Vol. 2012 Art. no. 902649- 902649

Ämneskategorier

Fysik

DOI

10.1155/2012/902649

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