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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 23(88), p. 232502

DOI: 10.1063/1.2209880

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Antiferromagnetic-coupling-induced magnetoresistance enhancement in Fex(TiO2)1-x films

Journal article published in 2006 by Hui Liu, W. B. Mi, Z. Q. Li ORCID, D. X. Zhang, Y. X. Wang, H. L. Bai, R. K. Zheng, S. P. Ringer
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Abstract

Fe-incorporated amorphous TiO2 films with different Fe volume fractions of 0.46 <= x <= 0.76 were deposited by cosputtering iron and Ti targets in an Ar+O-2 mixture. X-ray diffraction and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analyses give a structure of nanosized Fe particles embedded in amorphous TiO2 matrix for the Fe-x(TiO2)(1-x) films. Magnetic measurements show antiferromagnetic coupling between nanoscaled Fe granules when x < 0.60. The magnetoresistance of Fe-0.46(TiO2)(0.54) is about -7.6% at room temperature, which increases dramatically with decreasing temperature below similar to 100 K and reaches -29.3 % at 3 K. This significant enhancement of magnetoresistance can be qualitatively explained by antiferromagnetic coupling between Fe granules. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.