Calculations of giant magnetoresistance in Fe/Cr trilayers using layer potentials determined from {\it ab-initio} methods

Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science

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17 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. accepted in J. Phys.: Cond. Matter

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10.1088/0953-8984/19/10/106210

The ab initio full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave method explicitly designed for the slab geometry was employed to elucidate the physical origin of the layer potentials for the trilayers nFe/3Cr/nFe(001), where n is the number of Fe monolayers. The thickness of the transition-metal ferromagnet has been ranged from $n=1$ up to n=8 while the spacer thickness was fixed to 3 monolayers. The calculated potentials were inserted in the Fuchs-Sondheimer formalism in order to calculate the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) ratio. The predicted GMR ratio was compared with the experiment and the oscillatory behavior of the GMR as a function of the ferromagnetic layer thickness was discussed in the context of the layer potentials. The reported results confirm that the interface monolayers play a dominant role in the intrinsic GMR.

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