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Electrical transport properties of bulk NicFe1-c alloys and related spin-valve systems

C. Blaas, L. Szunyogh, P. Weinberger, C. Sommers, P. M. Levy

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0007507

Abstract

Within the Kubo-Greenwood formalism we use the fully relativistic, spin-polarized, screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method together with the coherent-potential approximation for layered systems to calculate the resistivity for the permalloy series NicFe1-c. We are able to reproduce the variation of the resistivity across the entire series; notably the discontinuous behavior in the vicinity of the structural phase transition from bcc to fcc. The absolute values for the resistivity are within a factor of two of the experimental data. Also the giant magnetoresistance of a series of permalloy-based spin-valve structures is estimated; we are able to reproduce the trends and values observed on prototypical spin-valve structures.

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