C-ion irradiation was performed on PtMn-based spin valves and the effects of ion irradiation on magnetoresistance (MR) and on the exchange field were investigated. When ion irradiation was performed prior to post-annealing, the exchange field was substantially enhanced after annealing, especially for an annealing temperature below 240 °C. The enhancement could be related to the formation of PtMn(C) phase, which might accelerate the formation of ordered PtMn phase and might increase the anisotropy of PtMn. Although the majority of C ions located in capping layers Ta and PtMn, small amounts of C ions may go into the interface of CoFe/Cu/CoFe, leading to a small MR.
Tunneling giant magnetoresistance (MR) of the Fe–Al2O3 nanogranular films has been observed over a wide range of Fe volume fraction x and it took a maximum of 4.4% at room temperature for the film with x=0.45 at H=10 kOe. Furthermore, the field dependence of MR of the samples is well described by the form proportional to the square of the magnetization. Moreover, an estimate of the magnetic anisotropy energy density Ku increases with the decrease of x, yielding a value 2 orders of magnitude greater than the value for bulk Fe when x=0.23. The Bloch’s law, MS(T)=MS0(1−BTb), can also hold for all the samples but with nonbulk parameters dependent on the Fe volume fraction. These results reveal a percolation effect on the magnetic properties, as well as the conductance, in such nanogranular films.
A series of Co/Mn/Co sandwiches was prepared on GaAs(001) surfaces at room temperature via a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) technique. Reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and x-ray-diffraction (XRD) analysis indicated a polycrystalline structure. By standard magnetoresistance measurements, it was found that with a Mn spacer thickness of 8 Å, a seldom-seen positive magnetoresistance (PMR) as high as 16% was exhibited at room temperature. The measurement under different geometries of H and I indicated that it was not an anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) effect. The MR–H curve displayed no hysteresis in contrast to the magnetometry measurement. An interface effect is proposed as a possible origin of this phenomenon.
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