Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Quantifying the critical thickness of electron hybridization in spintronics materials

  • T. Pincelli,
  • V. Lollobrigida,
  • F. Borgatti,
  • A. Regoutz,
  • B. Gobaut,
  • C. Schlueter,
  • T. -L. Lee,
  • D. J. Payne,
  • M. Oura,
  • K. Tamasaku,
  • A. Y. Petrov,
  • P. Graziosi,
  • F. Miletto Granozio,
  • M. Cavallini,
  • G. Vinai,
  • R. Ciprian,
  • C. H. Back,
  • G. Rossi,
  • M. Taguchi,
  • H. Daimon,
  • G. van der Laan,
  • G. Panaccione

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16051
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Surface versus bulk effects in electronic structure of spintronics materials are crucial to their applications but are yet well understood. Here the authors experimentally determine the critical thickness that defines the crossover of electron hybridization between surface and bulk for two prototype spintronics materials.