INVERSE MAGNETORESISTANCE IN THE SIMPLE SPIN-VALVE SYSTEM FE1-XVX/AU/CO

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RENARD, JP
BRUNO, P
MEGY, R
BARTENLIAN, B
BEAUVILLAIN, P
CHAPPERT, C
DUPAS, C
KOLB, E
MULLOY, M
VEILLET, P
VELU, E
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[1] Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, CNRS URA 022, Université Paris-Sud
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10.1103/PhysRevB.51.12821
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T [工业技术];
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Magnetoresistance (MR) measurements have been performed on Fe/Au/Co and Fe1-xVx/Au/Co trilayers with perpendicular orientation of the magnetization of the thin ferromagnetic layers. While the MR is larger for an antiparallel arrangement of the magnetizations than for a parallel one in Fe/Au/Co (the usual spin-valve-type MR), an inverse spin-valve effect is observed in Fe1-xVx/Au/Co. This inverse MR is attributed to an increase of the density of states at the Fermi level for majority-spin electrons when Fe is alloyed with V. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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页码:12821 / 12824
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