Tunneling giant magnetoresistance in heterogeneous Fe-SiO2 granular films

被引:127
作者
Honda, S [1 ]
Okada, T [1 ]
Nawate, M [1 ]
Tokumoto, M [1 ]
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[1] ELECTROTECH LAB,TSUKUBA,IBARAKI 305,JAPAN
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1997年 / 56卷 / 22期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.56.14566
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
Magnetic and transport properties are examined for heterogeneous Fe-SiO2 granular films prepared on glass substrates by rf sputteriug. The superparamagnetic nature and the tunneling giant magnetoresistance are observed in the films having Fe volume fractions smaller than 45%. The magnetization and magnetoresistance (MR) curves;Ire systematically anal?zed by the summation of two Langevin functions. The dependence of the MR ratio on the Fe volume fraction is explained phenomenologically by the distance between the nearest-neighbor grain surfaces. The temperature dependence uf the MR ratio is also discussed.
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页码:14566 / 14573
页数:8
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