Room temperature magnetoresistance in an organic spin valve with an aromatic hydrocarbon macrocycle
Author(s) -
Kazuya Suzuki,
Tomoo Izumi,
Xianmin Zhang,
Atsushi Sugihara,
Song-Toan Pham,
Hideo Taka,
Sota Sato,
Hiroyuki Isobe,
Shigemi Mizukami
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
apl materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.571
H-Index - 60
ISSN - 2166-532X
DOI - 10.1063/1.4979548
Subject(s) - hydrocarbon , magnetoresistance , stacking , aromatic hydrocarbon , materials science , spintronics , spin valve , aromaticity , polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , ferromagnetism , molecule , condensed matter physics , chemistry , magnetic field , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
Aromatic hydrocarbon macrocycles, which have a conjugatedπ-electron system, are potentially useful for variousorganic device applications, although there have been no attempts to apply themto organic spin valves (OSVs). Here, we studied OSVs with[6]cyclo-2,7-naphthylene (CNAP), a type of aromatic hydrocarbon macrocycle. OSVstacking structures ofCo/AlOx/CNAP/Ni80Fe20 withdifferent CNAP thicknesses were fabricated, and the transport properties of theOSVs were measured from 300 to 5 K. A magnetoresistance of approximately 1%-2%at 300 K (4%-6% at 5 K) was observed for 15-nm-thick OSVs, showing the potentialfor organic spintronics based on aromatic hydrocarbon macrocycles
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