Thickness dependence of magnetic and transport properties in organic-CoFe discontinuous multilayers

摘要

Spin-dependent transport measurement in 3-hexadecyl pyrrole (3HDP) with a CoFe layer and the current-in-plane geometry is reported. Transport properties indicate the CoFe layers are discontinuous when their thicknesses are smaller than 6 nm. The temperature dependence of the conductance suggests that the transport mechanism is likely small polaron hopping. The observed positive magnetoresistance ratio at low temperature gives evidence of spin-conserving transport.