Recent Selected Publications

A. N. Chantis, K. D. Belashchenko, D. L. Smith, E. Y. Tsymbal, M. van Schilfgaarde, and R. C. Albers, “Reversal of spin polarization in Fe/GaAs (001) driven by resonant surface states: First-principles calculations”, Physical Review Letters 99, 196603 (2007).

J. D. Burton, R. F. Sabirianov, J. P. Velev, O. N. Mryasov, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Effect of tip resonances on tunnelling anisotropic magnetoresistance in ferromagnetic break junctions: A first-principles study”, Physical Review B 76, 144430  (2007).

S. Sahoo, S. Polisetty, C.-G. Duan, S. S. Jaswal, E. Y. Tsymbal, and C. Binek, “Ferroelectric control of magnetism in BaTiO₃/Fe heterostructures”, Physical Review B 76, 092108 (2007).

J. P. Velev, C.-G. Duan, K. D. Belashchenko, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Effect of ferroelectricity on electron transport in Pt/BaTiO₃/Pt ferroelectric tunnel junctions”, Physical Review Letters 98, 137201 (2007).

A. Sokolov, C. Zhang, E. Y. Tsymbal, J. Redepenning, and B. Doudin, “Quantized magnetoresistance in atomic-size contacts”, Nature Nanotechnology 2, 171 (2007). Highlighted in Nature Nanotech. Press Release, Nature Nanotech. News & Views, Institute of Physics PhysicsWeb,  AIP Bulletin of Physics News, Materials Today, The Economist, TechWorld, Daily Nebraskan, Scarlet

A. V. Vedyayev, M. Ye. Zhuravlev, E. Y. Tsymbal and B. Dieny, “Resistance of a tunnel barrier with a pinhole”, J.  Exper. Theor. Physics 104, 87–95 (2007).

J. Velev, K. D. Belashchenko, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Effect of O vacancies on spin-dependent tunneling in Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions”, Applied Physics Letters 90, 072502  (2007).

A. N. Chantis, K. D. Belashchenko, E. Y. Tsymbal, and M. van Schilfgaarde, “Tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance driven by resonant surface states: First-principles calculations on a Fe(001) surface”,  Physical Review Letters  98, 046601 (2007).

E. Y. Tsymbal and H. Kohlstedt, “Tunneling across a ferroelectric”, Science 313, 181-183 (2006). Highlighted in Scarlet

J. D. Burton, R. F. Sabirianov, S. S. Jaswal, E. Y. Tsymbal, and O. N. Mryasov, “Magnetic Moment Softening and DomainWall Resistance in Ni Nanowires”, Physical Review Letters 97, 077204 (2006).

A. Baruth, L. Yuan, J. D. Burton, K. Janicka, E. Y. Tsymbal, S. H. Liou, and S. Adenwalla, “Domain overlap in antiferromagnetically-coupled [Co/Pt]/NiO/[Co/Pt] multilayers”, Applied Physics Letters 89, 202505 (2006).

C.-G. Duan, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal, ”Predicted magnetoelectric effect in Fe/BaTiO3 multilayers: Ferroelectric control of magnetism”, Physical Review Letters 97, 047201 (2006). Highlighted in Materials Today.

J. D. Burton, S. S. Jaswal, E. Y. Tsymbal, O. N. Mryasov, and O. G. Heinonen, “Atomic and electronic structure of FeCoB/MgO(001) interface from first principles”, Applied Physics Letters 89, 142507 (2006).

T. Katayama, S. Yuasa, J. P. Velev, M. Ye. Zhuravlev, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Interlayer exchange coupling in Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions”, Applied Physics Letters 89, 112503 (2006).

C.-G. Duan, R. Sabirianov, W.-N. Mei, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Interface Effect  on Ferroelectricity at the Nanoscale”, Nano Letters 6, 483-487 (2006).

J. P. Velev, K. D. Belashchenko, and E. Y. Tsymbal, Comment on “Destructive effect of disorder and bias voltage on interface resonance transmission in symmetric tunnel junctions”, Physical Review Letters  96, 119601 (2006).

C.-G. Duan, R. F. Sabiryanov, J. Liu, W. N. Mei, P. A. Dowben, S. S. Jaswal,  E. Y. Tsymbal, “Magnetic ordering in Gd monopnictides: indirect exchange versus superexchange interaction”, Applied Physics Letters 88, 182505 (2006).

M. Ye. Zhuravlev, S. S. Jaswal, E. Y. Tsymbal, and R. F. Sabirianov, “Ferroelectric switch for spin injection,” Applied Physics Letters 87, 222114 (2005).

J. Velev, K. D. Belashchenko, D. Stewart, M. van Schilfgaarde, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Negative spin polarization and large tunneling magnetoresistance in epitaxial Co/SrTiO3/Co magnetic tunnel junctions”, Physical Review Letters  95, 216601 (2005).

K. D. Belashchenko, J. Velev, and E. Y. Tsymbal,  “Effect of interface states on spin-dependent tunneling in Fe/MgO/Fe tunnel junctions”, Physical Review B  72, R140404 (2005).

R. Sabirianov, A. K. Solanki, J. D. Burton, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal, "Domain Wall Magnetoresistance in Co Nanowires", Physical Review B  72, 054443 (2005).

M. Ye. Zhuravlev, R. F. Sabirianov, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Giant Electroresistance in Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions”, Physical Review Letters  94, 246802 (2005).

K. D. Belashchenko, E. Y. Tsymbal, I. I. Oleinik, and M. van Schilfgaarde, “Positive spin polarization in Co/Al2O3/Co tunnel junctions driven by oxygen adsorption”, Physical Review B  71, 224422 (2005).

J. Velev, R. Sabirianov, S. S. Jaswal and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Ballistic Anisotropic Magnetoresistance”, Physical Review Letters 94, 127203 (2005).

R. J. Baxter, D. G. Pettifor, and E. Y. Tsymbal, "Interface Proximity Effects in Current-Perpendicular-to-Plane Magnetoresistance", Physical Review B  71, 024415 (2005).

M. Ye. Zhuravlev, E. Y. Tsymbal, and A. V. Vedyayev, "Impurity-Assisted Interlayer Exchange Coupling across a Tunnel Barrier", Physical Review Letters