1. Observation of intrinsic half-metallic behavior of CrO2 (100) epitaxial films by bulk-sensitive spin-resolved PES.
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Fujiwara, Hirokazu, Sunagawa, Masanori, Terashima, Kensei, Kittaka, Tomoko, Wakita, Takanori, Muraoka, Yuji, and Yokoya, Takayoshi
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SPIN polarization , *PHOTOELECTRON spectroscopy , *PHOTOEMISSIVE devices , *MAGNETIZATION , *QUASIPARTICLES - Abstract
We have investigated the electronic states and spin polarization of half-metallic ferromagnet CrO 2 (100) epitaxial films by bulk-sensitive spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with a focus on non-quasiparticle (NQP) states derived from electron-magnon interactions. We found that the averaged values of the spin polarization are approximately 100% and 40% at 40 K and 300 K, respectively. This is consistent with the previously reported result [H. Fujiwara et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 106 , 202404 (2015).]. At 100 K, peculiar spin depolarization was observed at the Fermi level ( E F ), which is supported by theoretical calculations predicting NQP states. This suggests the possible appearance of NQP states in CrO 2 . We also compare the temperature dependence of our spin polarizations with that of the magnetization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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