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TY - JOUR
T1 - Breakdown of the resistor model of CPP-GMR in magnetic multilayered nanostructures.
AU - Sanvito, S.
AU - Lambert, C. J.
AU - Jefferson, J. H.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - We study the effect on CPP GMR of changing the order of the layers in a multilayer. Using a tight-binding simple cubic two band model (s-d), magneto-transport properties are calculated in the zero-temperature, zero-bias limit, within the Landauer-Büttiker formalism. We demonstrate that for layers of different thicknesses formed from a single magnetic metal and multilayers formed from two magnetic metals, the GMR ratio and its dependence on disorder is sensitive to the order of the layers. This effect disappears in the limit of large disorder, where the results of the widely-used Boltzmann approach to transport are restored.
AB - We study the effect on CPP GMR of changing the order of the layers in a multilayer. Using a tight-binding simple cubic two band model (s-d), magneto-transport properties are calculated in the zero-temperature, zero-bias limit, within the Landauer-Büttiker formalism. We demonstrate that for layers of different thicknesses formed from a single magnetic metal and multilayers formed from two magnetic metals, the GMR ratio and its dependence on disorder is sensitive to the order of the layers. This effect disappears in the limit of large disorder, where the results of the widely-used Boltzmann approach to transport are restored.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.14225
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.14225
M3 - Journal article
VL - 61
SP - 14225
EP - 14228
JO - Physical review B
JF - Physical review B
SN - 1098-0121
IS - 20
ER -