Effects of domains on giant magnetoresistance
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 50 (9) , 6089-6093
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.50.6089
Abstract
We discuss effects of in-plane magnetic domains on the magnetoresistance of magnetic multilayers. We find that the role of domains is similar to spin-flip processes. If one does not know the domain structure, nor the amount of spin-flip scattering, both mechanisms are equally plausible for producing spin diffusion which suppresses the magnetoresistance for the current perpendicular to the plane of the layers.Keywords
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