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Determination of the Upper Limit for the Cluster Moment Contributing the Giant Magneto Resistance in Laser Deposited Granular Cu-rich Thin Films
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
Abstract
We have fabricated granular Cu95Co5 thin films by laser ablation-deposition. Within a regime of annealing temperatures, these samples exhibit Giant Magneto Resistance (GMR), typically 5% in 0.5 Tesla at 5 K. The magnetic hysteresis loops are found to show finite coercive fields in the whole temperature range 2 K - 300 K. Below 9 K, the field dependence of the MR shows a split maximum. We interpret the data in terms of coercivity arising from blocking phenomenon of single domain superparamagnetic Co clusters. A quantitative determination of the upper limit for the cluster moment contributing to GMR is estimated to be 17000 μB (a cluster size of 5 nm).
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