First-principles-based study of transport properties of Fe thin films on Cu surfaces

• Main Authors: Kishi, Tomoya, Kasai, Hideaki, Nakanishi, Hiroshi, Diño, Wilson Agerico, Komori, Fumio
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2004
• Subjects: Nanostructured materials; Iron; Ferromagnetism; Thin films, Multilayered; Polarization (Electricity); Surfaces; Copper; Molecular beam epitaxy; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Physics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3808; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/4810/type/native/viewcontent/050.html
• Institution: De La Salle University

We investigate the transport properties of Fe thin films on Cu(111) based on first principles calculation. We calculate the electron current through these Fe thin films, which can be observed by using a double-tipped scanning tunnelling microscope. We find that the conductance is majority spin polar...