Spin-dependent electronic transport in granular ferromagnets

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作者
Milner, A
Gerber, A
Groisman, B
Karpovsky, M
Gladkikh, A
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[1] School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Ramat Aviv
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.475
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report a comparative study of the spin-dependent electronic transport in two types of granular ferromagnetic systems: ferromagnet metal (Ni-Ag, Co-Ag) and ferromagnet insulator (Ni-SiO2, Co-SiO2). Both systems demonstrate remarkably similar magnetoresistive behavior of comparable magnitude: negative isotropic magnetoresistance below the ferromagnet percolation threshold and the anisotropic magnetoresistance above.
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