Effect of ferromagnetic film thickness on magnetoresistance of thin-film superconductor-ferromagnet hybrids

Details Effect of ferromagnetic film thickness on magnetoresistance of thin-film superconductor-ferromagnet hybrids Effect of ferromagnetic film thickness on magnetoresistance of thin-film superconductor-ferromagnet hybrids

2010-05-07

arxiv.org/abs/1005.1246v1

J. Appl. Phys. 108, 033911 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

10 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3457844

We study the influence of the thickness Df of the plain ferromagnetic (F) film on the electrical resistance of the flux-coupled hybrids, consisting of superconducting (S) Al film and multilayer [Co/Pt] F film with out-of-plain magnetization. The behavior of such hybrids at high and low temperatures is found to be different: the nucleation of superconductivity at high temperatures is governed mainly by the typical lateral dimensions of the magnetic domains, while low temperature properties are determined by topology of the magnetic template. We show that an increase in the Df value leads to a broadening of the field- and temperature intervals where non-monotonous dependence of the superconducting critical temperature Tc on the applied magnetic field H is observed (for demagnetized F films). Further increase in the Df value results in a global suppression of superconductivity. Thus, we determined an optimal thickness, when the non-monotonous dependence Tc(H) can be observed in rather broad T and H range, what can be interesting for further studies of the localized superconductivity in planar Al-based S/F hybrids and for development of the devices which can exploit the localized superconductivity.

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