(1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China) (2 Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210089, China)
The properties of polycrystalline materials are strongly determined by structural and morphological parameters of the grain population such as the orientation distribution function. This effect becomes especially important if the material exhibits an anisotropic crystal structure or in the case of electronic properties of thin films, such as a typical material system—magnetite Fe3O4 films. As a typical half metallic material, Fe3O4 magnetic films have attracted much attention in semiconductor spintronics due to its appropriate conductivity and theoretically 100% spin polarization at Femi level. As (111) texture is a common structure in Fe3O4 films, the paper introduced the current studies on (111)-textured correlated spin transport and magnetic dynamics (magnetic anisotropy) in Fe3O4 films.