The magic of magnetic multilayers

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作者
Parkin, SSP [1 ]
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[1] IBM Corp, Almaden Res Ctr, Div Res, San Jose, CA 95120 USA
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10.1147/rd.421.0003
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TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
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0812 ;
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Magnetic multilayers are studied based on the discovery of its enhanced or giant magnetoresistance (GMR) and oscillatory interlayer exchange coupling in magnetic multilayered structures consisting of alternating thin ferromagnetic and nonferromagnetic metallic layers. GRM is displayed by a wide variety of inhomogeneous magnetic nanostructures consisting of magnetic entities. The original observation of GRM is made of single-crystalline (100) Fe/Cr sandwich and superlattice structures grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) in ultrahigh-vacuum deposition chambers.
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