MirenIsasa, Amilcar Bedoya-Pinto, Saül Vélez, Federico Golmar, Florencio Sánchez, Luis E. Hueso, Josep Fontcuberta, and Fèlix Casanova
Applied Physics Letters 105, 142402 (2014)
SPINTRONICS WITH NON-MAGNETIC MATERIALS. The neighborhood makes all difference
It has been discovered that electric resistance of a nonmagnetic metal (Pt in our case) is depending on magnetization state of neighboring insulating ferromagnetic layer, namely on the atomic planes forming the interface and their crystallographic orientation.