Spin injection in a single metallic nanoparticle: a step towards nanospintronics

Preprint

19 January 2006

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0601439

Abstract

We have fabricated nanometer sized magnetic tunnel junctions using a new nanoindentation technique in order to study the transport properties of a single metallic nanoparticle. Coulomb blockade effects show clear evidence for single electron tunneling through a single 2.5 nm Au cluster. The observed magnetoresistance is the signature of spin conservation during the transport process through a non magnetic cluster.

Keywords

SINGLE METALLIC NANOPARTICLE
NANOSPINTRONICS
NANOINDENTATION
SPIN INJECTION
TUNNELING
COULOMB

All Related Versions

Version 1, 2006-01-19, ArXiv
Published version: Applied Physics Letters, 89 (6).

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: