Heteroepitaxy of Fe3O4/Muscovite: A New Perspective for Flexible Spintronics

• DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b11610
• Publication Date: 2016-11-21T19:21:53Z
• Authors: Ping-Chun Wu; Ping-Fan Chen; Thi Hien Do; Ying-Hui Hsieh; Chun-Hao Ma; Thai Duy Ha; Kun-Hong Wu; Yu-Jia Wang; Hao-Bo Li; Yi-Chun Chen; Jenh-Yih Juang; Pu Yu; Lukas M. Eng; Chun-Fu Chang; Po-Wen Chiu; Liu Hao Tjeng; Ying-Hao Chu
• Keywords: Muscovite

Spintronics has captured a lot of attention since it was proposed. It been triggering numerous research groups to make their efforts on pursuing spin-related electronic devices. Recently, flexible and wearable devices are in high demand due outstanding potential practical applications. In order introduce spintronics into the realm devices, we demonstrate that is feasible grow epitaxial Fe3O4 film, promising candidate for realizing spintronic based tunneling magnetoresistance, muscovite. this study, heteroepitaxy Fe3O4/muscovite characterized by X-ray diffraction, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy. The chemical composition magnetic feature investigated combination photoelectron spectroscopy circular dichroism. electrical properties examined show preservation primitive Fe3O4. Furthermore, various bending tests performed tunability functionalities confirm heterostructures retain physical under repeated cycles. These results illustrate heterostructure can be applications spintronics.