Spin filtering by ultrathin ferromagnetic films
1999
Spin filtering of ballistic electrons by ultrathin cobalt films of thicknesses ranging from 0.2 to 3.5 nm has been studied experimentally using nonmagnetic metal–ferromagnet–superconductor nanocontacts. In such systems the flow of electrons with energies below the superconducting gap is very sensitive to any net spin polarization of the electron current. This effect was used to quantitatively measure the transmission rates of up and down spin electrons passing through an individual ferromagnetic layer of nanometer thickness.
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