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Magnetoresistive Properties of Quasiperiodic Metallic Multilayers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

M. Shima ,
L. Salamanca-Riba  and
L. J. Swartzendruber
M. Shima
Affiliation:
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
L. Salamanca-Riba
Affiliation:
Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
L. J. Swartzendruber
Affiliation:
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899
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Abstract

Fibonacci Ni/Cu multilayers were fabricated by electrodeposition for the first time. The deposition of these quasiperiodic as well as periodic multilayers was fully controlled by a computer. X-ray diffraction spectra from a quasiperiodic multilayer built up from blocks of Ni(8ML)/Cu(4.5ML) and Ni(8ML)/Cu(9ML) indicate that the multilayer is of good quality. Since a Fibonacci multilayer has a quasiperiodic nature, the magnetoresistance effect in this system is expected to give more information about the mechanism for magnetic interlayer coupling in the GMR effect. The magnetic and magnetoresistive properties of the quasiperiodic multilayer were compared with those of two periodic multilayers having the equivalent layer thicknesses as the blocks composing the quasiperiodic multilayer. The magnetic and electrical properties of the quasiperiodic multilayer are not the weighted average of the two periodic multilayers.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 451: Symposium P – Electrochemical Synthesis and Modification , 1996 , 419
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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