Spin-polarized quasiparticle injection devices using Au/YBa2Cu3O7/LaAIO3/Nd 0.7Sr0.3MnO3 heterostructures
Publication Type
Journal Article
Authors
Dong, Z.W., Ramamoorthy Ramesh, T. Venkatesan, M. Johnson, Z.Y. Chen, S.P. Pai, V. Talyansky, R.P. Sharma, R. Shreekala, C.J. Lobb, R.L. Greene
DOI
Abstract
Oxide heterostructures were used for studies of quasiparticle injection effects in high-Tc superconducting thin films. The effect of injection of spin polarized quasiparticles from a ferromagnetic gate layer was compared to that of unpolarized quasiparticles from a nonmagnetic metallic gate. Transport measurements of the superconducting layer showed strong suppression in the supercurrent by the injection of spin-polarized quasiparticles, and a current gain of as large as five was attained. This is 10 to 30 times larger than the gain of unpolarized injection devices. Such large effects could be useful in a variety of active high-Tc superconductor/colossal magnetoresistance heterostructure based devices. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.
Journal
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
71
Year of Publication
1997
ISSN
00036951