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We present tunneling experiments on Fe(001)/MgO(20 Å)/FeCo(001) single-crystal epitaxial junctions of high quality grown by sputtering and laser ablation. Tunnel magnetoresistance measurements give 60% at 30 K, to be compared with 13% obtained recently on (001)-oriented Fe/amorphous-Al2O3/FeCo tunnel junctions. This difference demonstrates that the spin polarization of tunneling electrons is not directly related to the density of states of the free metal surface—Fe(001) in this case—but depends on the actual electronic structure of the entire electrode/barrier system.
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Bowen et al. (2001) studied this question.
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