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Surface Contribution to GMR in Fe/Cr/Fe Films

Warda K, Pereiro M, Wojtczak L, Baldomir D, Castro J, Arias J

Materials Science Poland

2008

Vol. 26, No. 4

1077--1082

Transport properties of very thin films have been analysed using the layered potentials calculated by means of the ab initio method represented by the density functional theory (DFT) in the planar geometry for the nFe/3Cr/nFe films, where n is the number of monoatomic Fe layers, (1 ≤ n ≤ 8). We also take into consideration the values of the relaxation time and the effective mass of an electron in terms of the considered potentials. The matching conditions have been applied at the interface and the boundary conditions at the surface in order to determine the contributions to the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) coming from the surface, interface, and inner layers. The surface roughness is introduced by means of the specularity factor Pσ defined in the spin-dependent terms responsible for the scattering of the electrons. Thus, the electron scattering at the outer surfaces depends on both spin orientations. The main result obtained in the paper is the evaluation that the surface contribution to GMR is very small in comparison with the effect of interface.

An influence of the effective mass on magnetoresistance in ultrathin Fe/Cr/Fe films

Warda K., Wojtczak L., Baldomir D., Pereiro M., Arias J.

Materials Science Poland

2006

Vol. 24, No. 3

731--735

The transport properties of ultrathin metallic sandwich structures of Fe/Cr/Fe are studied as a function of magnetic layers thickness for the current in plane geometry (CIP). Taking into account the band structure obtained from the density functional theory (DFT), we determine the basic physical properties like Fermi energy and relaxation time calculated for each magnetic and spacer layer. Next, using the Boltzmann formalism in its extended form we obtain the results for the magnetoresistance (MR). In particular, we analyze an influence of the effective mass parametrization.