Enhanced magnetoresistance of Co/Cu(111) wedge superlattices grown by MBE

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作者
Xu, J
Hickey, BJ
Howson, MA
Greig, D
Walker, MJ
Wiser, N
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[1] UNIV LEEDS,DEPT PHYS,LEEDS LS2 9JT,W YORKSHIRE,ENGLAND
[2] BAR ILAN UNIV,DEPT PHYS,RAMAT GAN,ISRAEL
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10.1016/0304-8853(95)00790-3
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T [工业技术];
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We have grown epitaxial Co/Cu multilayer samples at different temperatures using MBE on sapphire (<11(2)over bar 0>) substrates with a 30 Angstrom layer of Nb as a buffer, and find a remarkable correlation between the sharpness of X-ray rocking curves and the magnitude of the GMR. Whereas the peak GMR for our previous samples grown on GaAs was never greater than 26%, the maximum GMR of samples grown on sapphire under optimal growth conditions was as high as 50%.
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