First principles modeling of tunnel magnetoresistance of Fe/MgO/Fe trilayers
arXiv:cond-mat/0605017 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.226802
Abstract
By carrying out density functional theory analysis within the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's functional formalism, we have calculated the nonlinear and non-equilibrium quantum transport properties of Fe/MgO/Fe trilayer structures as a function of external bias voltage. For well relaxed atomic structures of the trilayer, the equilibrium tunnel magnetoresistance ratio (TMR) is found to be very large and also fairly stable against small variations in the atomic structure. As a function of external bias voltage, the TMR reduces monotonically to zero with a voltage scale of about 1V, in agreement with experimental observations. We present understanding of the nonequilibrium transport properties by investigating microscopic details of the scattering states and the Bloch bands of the Fe leads.
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