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Remote control of magnetostriction-based nanocontacts at room temperature

Jammalamadaka, S. N.; Kuntz, S. 1; Berg, O. 1; Kittler, W. 1; Kannan, U. M.; Chelvane, J. A.; Sürgers, C. ORCID iD icon 1
1 Physikalisches Institut (PHI), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

The remote control of the electrical conductance through nanosized junctions at room temperature will play an important role in future nano-electromechanical systems and electronic devices. This can be achieved by exploiting the magnetostriction effects of ferromagnetic materials. Here we report on the electrical conductance of magnetic nanocontacts obtained from wires of the giant magnetostrictive compound Tb 0.3 Dy 0.7 Fe 1.95 as an active element in a mechanically controlled break-junction device. The nanocontacts are reproducibly switched at room temperature between "open" (zero conductance) and "closed" (nonzero conductance) states by variation of a magnetic field applied perpendicularly to the long wire axis. Conductance measurements in a magnetic field oriented parallel to the long wire axis exhibit a different behaviour where the conductance switches between both states only in a limited field range close to the coercive field. Investigating the conductance in the regime of electron tunneling by mechanical or magnetostrictive control of the electrode separation enables an estimation of the magnetostriction. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000049763
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DOI: 10.1038/srep13621
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Physikalisches Institut (PHI)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2015
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2045-2322
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-497637
KITopen-ID: 1000049763
Erschienen in Scientific Reports
Verlag Nature Research
Band 5
Seiten 13621
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