TY - JOUR
AU - S Jin
AU - L.H Chen
AU - T.H Tiefel
AU - M Eibschutz
AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh
AB - Giant magnetoresistance in a spinodally decomposed, bulk 60 Cu-20 Ni-20 Fe alloy is reported. An annealed, quenched, and heat-treated sample with a compositional modulation of ≲50 Å size exhibits a ΔR/R value as high as 9% at 4.2 K. Optimization of the ferromagnetic phase particle geometry through a combination of spinodal decomposition and uniaxial deformation led to a locally multilayered, superlattice-like structure and a dramatic increase in room-temperature magnetoresistance from ∼0.6 to ∼5%. This improvement in magnetoresistance is accompanied by a decrease in coercivity from ∼620 Oe in the fully decomposed material to ∼45 Oe in the optimized structure. Interestingly, this structure no longer exhibits the commonly observed temperature-dependent behavior of ΔR/R increasing at low temperatures, but rather shows a decrease at 4.2 K.
BT - Journal of Applied Physics
DO - 10.1063/1.356779
LA - eng
M1 - 10
N1 - cited By 5
N2 - Giant magnetoresistance in a spinodally decomposed, bulk 60 Cu-20 Ni-20 Fe alloy is reported. An annealed, quenched, and heat-treated sample with a compositional modulation of ≲50 Å size exhibits a ΔR/R value as high as 9% at 4.2 K. Optimization of the ferromagnetic phase particle geometry through a combination of spinodal decomposition and uniaxial deformation led to a locally multilayered, superlattice-like structure and a dramatic increase in room-temperature magnetoresistance from ∼0.6 to ∼5%. This improvement in magnetoresistance is accompanied by a decrease in coercivity from ∼620 Oe in the fully decomposed material to ∼45 Oe in the optimized structure. Interestingly, this structure no longer exhibits the commonly observed temperature-dependent behavior of ΔR/R increasing at low temperatures, but rather shows a decrease at 4.2 K.
PY - 1994
SP - 6915
EP - 6917
T2 - Journal of Applied Physics
TI - Modulation-induced giant magnetoresistance in a spinodally decomposed Cu-Ni-Fe alloy
VL - 75
SN - 00218979
ER -