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Domain-Wall Magnetoresistance Of Co Nanowires, Renat F. Sabirianov, Ashok K. Solanki, J. D. Burton, Sitaram S. Jaswal, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal Aug 2005

Domain-Wall Magnetoresistance Of Co Nanowires, Renat F. Sabirianov, Ashok K. Solanki, J. D. Burton, Sitaram S. Jaswal, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

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Using density functional theory implemented within a tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method we perform calculations of electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of ferromagnetic free-standing fcc Co wires with diameters up to 1.5 nm. We show that finite-size effects play an important role in these nanowires resulting in oscillatory behavior of electronic charge and the magnetization as a function of the wire thickness, and a nonmonotonic behavior of spin-dependent quantized conductance. We calculate the magnetoresistance (MR) of a domain wall (DW) modeled by a spin-spiral region of finite width sandwiched between two semi-infinite Co wire leads. We find that the DW …


Optical And Magneto-Optical Properties Of Mnpt3 Films (Abstract), Segate Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa, J. N. Hilfiker, Renat F. Sabirianov, Sitaram S. Jaswal, Roger D. Kirby, John A. Woollam Apr 1997

Optical And Magneto-Optical Properties Of Mnpt3 Films (Abstract), Segate Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa, J. N. Hilfiker, Renat F. Sabirianov, Sitaram S. Jaswal, Roger D. Kirby, John A. Woollam

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Optically thick films of MnPt3 were prepared by magnetron sputtering onto quartz substrates. Postdeposition annealing at 850 °C resulted in highly textured (111) films with the L12 (Cu3Au) structure. MnPt3 films are ferromagnetic with a Curie temperature of 380 °C, and they show large magneto-optical effects in the visible.1,2 These films also show a high degree of long-range order. The diagonal components of the dielectric tensor were determined using variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements over the spectral range 1.2–2.4 eV. Magneto-optic Kerr rotation and ellipticity measurements were made at near normal incidence over the …