Temperature Effect on Magnetoresistive Properties of Fe and Co Island Films

Authors

  • A. M. Chornous Sumy State University
  • Yu. O. Shkurdoda Sumy State University
  • V. B. Loboda Sumy National Agrarian University
  • V. M. Kolomiets Institute of Applied Physics, Nat. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe62.05.0441

Keywords:

island film, tunnel magnetoresistance, spin-dependent tunneling, thermally induced conductivity

Abstract

Magnetoresistive properties of ultrathin Fe and Co films with effective thicknesses d =3÷30 nm are studied in a temperature interval of (150–700) K. For films with d =3÷10 nm, the electrical conductivity is found to be thermally activated and the tunnel magnetoresistance effect is revealed. A decrease of the temperature down to 150 K in measurements on as-condensed films is found to result in the appearance of the magnetoresistive hysteresis and a reduction of the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) in a thickness interval of 10–15 nm. The maximum TMR value in the fields up to 0.7 T amounted to 1% for the as-condensed Fe films with an effective thickness of 17 nm and the Fe films with an effective thickness of 8 nm annealed at a temperature of 520 K.

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Published

2018-12-15

How to Cite

Chornous, A. M., Shkurdoda, Y. O., Loboda, V. B., & Kolomiets, V. M. (2018). Temperature Effect on Magnetoresistive Properties of Fe and Co Island Films. Ukrainian Journal of Physics, 62(5), 441. https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe62.05.0441

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Section

Nanosystems

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