TY  - JOUR
AU  - Otte, Fabian
AU  - Heinze, Stefan
AU  - Mokrousov, Yuriy
TI  - Molecular anisotropic magnetoresistance
JO  - Physical review / B
VL  - 92
IS  - 22
SN  - 1098-0121
CY  - College Park, Md.
PB  - APS
M1  - FZJ-2015-07793
SP  - 220411
PY  - 2015
AB  - Using density functional theory calculations, we demonstrate that the effect of anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) can be enhanced by orders of magnitude with respect to conventional bulk ferromagnets in junctions containing molecules sandwiched between ferromagnetic leads. We study ballistic transport in metal-benzene complexes contacted by 3d transition-metal wires. We show that a gigantic AMR can arise from spin-orbit coupling effects in the leads, drastically enhanced by orbital-symmetry filtering properties of the molecules. We further discuss how this molecular anisotropic magnetoresistance (MAMR) can be tuned by the proper choice of materials and their electronic properties.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000366500200001
DO  - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.92.220411
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/279919
ER  -