Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2001-11-06
Phys. Rev. B vol. 65, 054408 (2002)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
8 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.65.054408
The temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity and magnetoresistance of Xe-ion beam sputtered Fe-Cr multilayers has been investigated. The electrical resistivity between 5 and 300 K in the fully ferromagnetic state, obtained by applying a field beyond the saturation field (H_sat) necessary for the antiferromagnetic(AF)-ferromagnetic(FM) field-induced transition, shows evidence of spin-disorder resistivity as in crystalline Fe and an s-d scattering contribution (as in 3d metals and alloys). The sublattice magnetization m(T) in these multilayers has been calculated in terms of the planar and interlayer exchange energies. The additional spin-dependent scattering \Delta \rho (T) = \rho(T,H=0)_AF - \rho(T,H=H_sat)_FM in the AF state over a wide range of temperature is found to be proportional to the sublattice magnetization, both \Delta \rho(T) and m(T) reducing along with the antiferromagnetic fraction. At intermediate fields, the spin-dependent part of the electrical resistivity (\rho_s (T)) fits well to the power law \rho_s (T) = b - cT^\alpha where c is a constant and b and \alpha are functions of H. At low fields \alpha \approx 2 and the intercept b decreases with H much the same way as the decrease of \Delta \rho (T) with T. A phase diagram (T vs. H_sat) is obtained for the field- induced AF to FM transition. Comparisons are made between the present investigation and similar studies using dc magnetron sputtered and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) grown Fe-Cr multilayers.
Hebard Arthur F.
Majumdar Arun K.
Singh Avinash
Temple D.
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