Abstract
The giant magnetoresistance in PtMn alloys was studied. It was shown that the onset of chemical and magnetic order in PtMn was accompanied by a large increase in the resistivity, ρ, contrary to that observed in nonmagnetic or ferromagnetic disorder-order transitions. It was observed that the characterstics of the resistance change with anneal time in two regimes, with only the second regime involving a disorder/order transition. The change of ρ with time was used to calculate the activation energy for the L1 0 transformation in PtMn.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3097-3099 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue number | 16 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 19 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)