Abstract
We analyze the local density of states (LDOS) of heterostructures consisting of alternating ferromagnet, F, and superconductor, S, layers. We consider structures of the SFS and SFSFSFS type, with thin nanometer scale F and S layers, within the ballistic regime. The spin-splitting effects of the ferromagnet and the mutual coupling between the S regions, yield several nontrivial stable and metastable pair amplitude configurations, and we find that the details of the spatial behavior of the pair amplitude govern the calculated electronic spectra. These are reflected in discernible signatures of the LDOS. The roles that the magnetic exchange energy, interface scattering strength, and the Fermi wavevector mismatch each have on the LDOS for the different allowed junction configurations, are systematically investigated.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 111-124 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Physica C: Superconductivity and its applications |
| Volume | 420 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
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| State | Published - Apr 1 2005 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by a grant of HPC resources from the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks as part of the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program.
Keywords
- Local DOS
- Magnets
- Nanostructures
- Nanotechnology
- Proximity effect
- Superconductors
- π-junctions