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Published on: January 21, 2016
Termination-Preserved Ultrahigh Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Altermagnetic KV2Se2O
Junnan Guo1, Himanshu Mavani2, Wenhui Fang1
1Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China.
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Altermagnets exhibit nonrelativistic spin splitting without net magnetization, offering a promising platform for next-generation spintronic devices. Although altermagnetic tunnel junctions (AMTJs) represent promising realizations, their practical applications are hindered by low tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) ratios and strong sensitivity to interfacial configurations. Here, we systematically explore the transport properties and microscopic mechanisms of AMTJs based on the d-wave altermagnet KV2Se2O. Using first-principles calculations and orbital-resolved analysis, we demonstrate that the synergy between compressed nodal-point-like spin-degenerate channels and coplanar interfacial magnetic order yields an ultrahigh intrinsic TMR above 105% for all interfacial terminations. More importantly, K-termination effectively preserves bulk spin polarization through its passivation characteristics, leading to an ultrahigh TMR up to 1012%. These results highlight the coupling between momentum-space topology and interfacial passivation as a reliable strategy for realizing giant magnetoresistive responses in altermagnetic spintronic devices.
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