Strong temperature dependence of magnetoresistance in Co-C granular thin films

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2144-2147

  Tang, Ruihe ^a,b   Mizuguchi, Masaki ^a   Wang, Hai ^a   Yu, Ronghai ^b   Takanashi, Koki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Magnetic granular thin film; Temperature dependence of magnetoresistance; Transport mechanism

Indexed keywords

MAGNETORESISTANCE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

GRANULAR THIN FILMS; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; LARGE NEGATIVE MAGNETORESISTANCE; LOW MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETO TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; SPIN DEPENDENT TRANSPORT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSPORT MECHANISM;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 77952851219     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2043340     Document Type: Article

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