Unconventional room-temperature negative magnetoresistance effect in Au/n-Ge:Sb/Au devices

Non-magnetic semiconductor materials and their devices have attracted wide attention since they are usually prone to exhibit large positive magnetoresistance(MR)effect in a low static magnetic field environment at room temperature.However,how to obtain a large room-temperature negative MR effect in them remains to be studied.In this paper,by designing an Au/n-Ge:Sb/Au device with metal electrodes located on identical side,we observe an obvious room-temperature negative MR effect in a specific 50 T pulsed high magnetic field direction environment,but not in a static low magnetic field environment.Through the analysis of the experimental measurement of the Hall effect results and bipolar transport theory,we propose that this unconventional negative MR effect is mainly related to the charge accumulation on the surface of the device under the modulation of the stronger Lorentz force provided by the pulsed high magnetic field.This theoretical analytical model is further confirmed by regulating the geometry size of the device.Our work sheds light on the development of novel magnetic sensing,magnetic logic and other devices based on non-magnetic semiconductors operating in pulsed high magnetic field environment.

3d过渡族铁磁金属的自旋热输运研究

关于铁磁金属体系中的自旋热输运实验研究,目前遇到的困难有:温度梯度的不均匀、铁磁金属中自旋流的分布不均匀,以及界面的各种散射等,这都会对铁磁金属多层膜体系的自旋塞贝克效应(SSE)产生显著影响,另外,诸多热相关效应引起的干扰信号,也会导致测量结果不准确。以上问题的存在是相关实验研究很少,且实验结果备受争议的原因。这些问题的解决,对于深入理解自旋热输运过程以及成功将自旋塞贝克效应于自旋电子器件中,均具有重要的理论和实践价值。本工作研究了FM/NM、FM_(1)/FM_(2)/NM结构中的纵向自旋塞贝克效应(LSSE),通过差分方法,扣除了研究体系中FM自身的反常能斯特信号和FM自身所产生的逆自旋霍尔效应信号,从而得到了体系的单一自旋塞贝克效应(SSE)信号。在此基础上,进一步研究了SSE信号对温度及铁磁层厚度的依赖关系。结果表明,SSE信号随温度升高而减小,随厚度增加而增大,值得注意的是,相较于单层FM体系,双层FM体系的信号并非各FM层信号的简单叠加;通过与文献的对比研究发现,采用本实验方法提取的SSE信号与理论模型计算值符合较好。