Ion Beam Mixing and Thermal Demixing of Co/Cu Multilayers
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in MRS Proceedings
Abstract
X-ray reflectivity and magnetotransport studies have been used to probe the effects of ion-beam irradiation and subsequent thermal annealing on the structure and giant magnetoresistance (GMR) in Co/Cu multilayers. Low-dose ion bombardment produces interfacial mixing which is accompanied by a systematic suppression of the anti ferromagnetic (AF) coupling and the GMR. For ion doses not exceeding 5 × 1014 ions/cm2, subsequent thermal annealing restores the abrupt interlayer structure as well as the GMR. The combination of low-dose ion bombardment and thermal annealing provides an ex situ technique to modify interface structure reversibly over a gnificant range.Keywords
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