GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE IN FE CR SUPERLATTICES WITH VERY THIN FE LAYERS

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SCHAD, R
POTTER, CD
BELIEN, P
VERBANCK, G
MOSHCHALKOV, VV
BRUYNSERAEDE, Y
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[1] Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysika en Magnetisme, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3001 Leuven
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10.1063/1.111253
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Carefully tailored Fe/Cr epitaxial superlattices with extremely thin Fe layers have been grown on MgO(100) by molecular beam epitaxy. The low-angle x-ray spectra reveal the presence of sharp interfaces down to an Fe layer thickness of a few monolayers. An [Fe(4.5 angstrom)/Cr(12 angstrom)]50 superlattice shows a 220% magnetoresistance at 1.5 K, and a saturation field of 110 kOe. A further decrease of the Fe layer thickness produces a drastic decrease in the magnetoresistance.
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