000017482 001__ 17482 000017482 005__ 20230426083028.0 000017482 0247_ $$2DOI$$a10.1103/PhysRevB.84.184410 000017482 0247_ $$2WOS$$aWOS:000296911600004 000017482 0247_ $$2Handle$$a2128/10909 000017482 037__ $$aPreJuSER-17482 000017482 041__ $$aeng 000017482 082__ $$a530 000017482 084__ $$2WoS$$aPhysics, Condensed Matter 000017482 1001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)VDB81016$$aYang, S.-H.$$b0$$uFZJ 000017482 245__ $$aDetermination of layer-resolved composition, magnetization, and electronic structure of an Fe/MgO tunnel junction by standing-wave core and valence photoemission 000017482 260__ $$aCollege Park, Md.$$bAPS$$c2011 000017482 300__ $$a184410 000017482 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)16$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aJournal Article 000017482 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Journal article 000017482 3367_ $$00$$2EndNote$$aJournal Article 000017482 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aARTICLE 000017482 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aJOURNAL_ARTICLE 000017482 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$aarticle 000017482 440_0 $$04919$$aPhysical Review B$$v84$$x1098-0121$$y18 000017482 500__ $$3POF3_Assignment on 2016-02-29 000017482 500__ $$aB.B. and C.P. gratefully acknowledge the support through the Feodor-Lynen fellowship of the Humboldt foundation. C.F. also acknowledges support of the Helmholtz Association and the Humboldt Foundation. Additionally, the experiments at the Advanced Light Source and the participation of LBNL Materials Sciences Division scientists were supported by Department of Energy (DOE) Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. 000017482 520__ $$aSpin-dependent tunneling across a highly textured MgO insulating barrier has received much attention due to its potential applications in various spintronic devices. However, the interfacial magnetic and electronic structure of a prototypical realization of this in Fe/MgO/Fe and the effective band gap of the MgO layer are still under debate. In order to resolve these issues, we have employed standing-wave excited core and valence photoemission, as well as core-level magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) in photoemission, to study the Fe/MgO interface with subnanometer depth resolution. For our synthetic procedure, we show that the Fe/MgO interface is linearly intermixed in composition over a length of similar to 8 angstrom (similar to 4 monolayers) and that there is a magnetic dead layer similar to 2-3 angstrom thick. The unambiguous extraction of depth-resolved density of states (DOS) reveals that the interfacial layer composition is mostly metallic and nonmagnetic FeOx, with x congruent to 1, which accounts for a smaller magnetoresistance compared to theoretical predictions. The formation of the magnetic dead layer (FeO) at the interface should also reduce the tunneling spin polarization. The analysis of our data also shows a clear valence band edge of ultrathin MgO layer at similar to 3.5 eV below the Fermi level (E-F) that is very close to that of single crystal bulk MgO. An analysis that does not consider the interdiffused region separately exhibits the valence band edge for MgO layer similar to 1.3 eV below E-F, which is significantly closer to the MgO barrier height estimated from magnetotransport measurements and further suggests that the Fe/MgO interdiffusion effectively reduces the MgO band gap. 000017482 536__ $$0G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK412$$2G:(DE-HGF)$$aGrundlagen für zukünftige Informationstechnologien$$cP42$$x0 000017482 542__ $$2Crossref$$i2011-11-11$$uhttp://link.aps.org/licenses/aps-default-license 000017482 542__ $$2Crossref$$i2012-11-10$$uhttp://link.aps.org/licenses/aps-default-accepted-manuscript-license 000017482 588__ $$aDataset connected to Web of Science 000017482 650_7 $$2WoSType$$aJ 000017482 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)VDB71731$$aBalke, B.$$b1$$uFZJ 000017482 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)VDB102208$$aPapp, Ch.$$b2$$uFZJ 000017482 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)VDB102209$$aDoering, S.$$b3$$uFZJ 000017482 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)VDB102126$$aBerges, U.$$b4$$uFZJ 000017482 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)VDB83183$$aPlucinski, L.$$b5$$uFZJ 000017482 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)VDB95998$$aWestphal, C.$$b6$$uFZJ 000017482 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)130948$$aSchneider, C. 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