Proximity effects in superconducting triplet spin-valve F2/F1/S

Abstract

©2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. We investigate the critical temperature Tc of F2/F1/S trilayers (Fi is a ferromagnetic metal and S is a singlet superconductor), where the long-range triplet superconducting component is generated at noncollinear magnetizations of the F layers. In this paper we demonstrate a possibility of the spin-valve effect mode selection (standard switching effect, the triplet spin-valve effect or reentrant Tc(α) dependence) by the variation of the F2/F1 interface transparency.