강자성체박막의 회전에 따른 자기저항의 변화

Magnetoresistance Variation for Rotation in Ferromagnetic Thin Films

강자성체인 철과 니켈의 박막에서 전류와 자기장이 이루는 각도의 변화에 따른 자기저항의 변화를 관찰하였다. 경사각에 따른 PMR과 NMR의 크기가 같은 ${\phi}_{mix}$의 변화는 전류에 수직한 자기장의 성분과 평행한 자기장의 성분이 같게 되는 각도에서 자기저항 루프의 역전이 되는 것을 이용하면 ${\phi}_{mix}=tan^{-1}(1+tan{\theta})$와 같이 구해진다. 위 관계식은 실험치와 잘 일치함을 보여준다. 반면에 철박막의 경우에는 니켈박막과 자화축이 다르게 나타나서 ${\phi}_{mix}$가 위 식으로 주어진 관계와 일치하지 않는다.

In our angle configuration, several peculiar characteristic behaviors of MR could be observed, the mixing of positive MR(PMR) and negative MR(NMR) in the inclined sample was observed. The complete mixing angle, ${\phi}_{mix}$ as a function of inclination angle, ${\theta}$ was observed to fit well to the relation of ${\phi}_{mix}=tan^{-1}(1+tan{\theta})$ in nickel films. The above theoretical relation was obtained by decomposing the magnetic field into the components parallel and perpendicular to the current flow and identifying ${\phi}_{mix}$ as the angle satisfying that the above two components of magnetic field were identical. We also observed that the data of ${\phi}_{mix}$ did not satisfy the above theoretical relation in the iron film. This was explained by the fact that the growth direction in the iron film was an intermediate direction of magnetization, while the growth direction in the nickel film was an easy axis of magnetization.