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| '''Giant magnetoresistance (GMR)''' is a [[quantum mechanics|quantum mechanical]] [[magnetoresistance]] effect observed in thin-film structures composed of alternating [[ferromagnetic]] and non-magnetic conductive layers. The 2007 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] was awarded to [[Albert Fert]] and [[Peter Grünberg]] for the discovery of GMR.
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| The effect is observed as a significant change in the [[electrical resistance]] depending on whether the [[magnetization]] of adjacent [[ferromagnetic]] layers are in a parallel or an [[Antiparallel (electronics)|antiparallel]] alignment. The overall resistance is relatively low for parallel alignment and relatively high for antiparallel alignment. The magnetization direction can be controlled, for example, by applying an external magnetic field. The effect is based on the dependence of electron scattering on the spin orientation.
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| The main application of GMR is magnetic field sensors, which are used to read data in [[hard disk drive]]s, [[biosensor]]s, [[microelectromechanical systems]] (MEMS) and other devices. GMR multilayer structures are also used in [[magnetoresistive random-access memory]] (MRAM) as cells that store one bit of information.
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| In literature, the term giant magnetoresistance, is sometimes confused with [[colossal magnetoresistance]] of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic semiconductors, which is not related to the multilayer structure.<ref name="Nagaev96"/><ref name="Rao98"/>
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| [[Image:GMR.svg|thumb|340px|The founding results of [[Albert Fert]] and [[Peter Grünberg]] (1988): change in the resistance of Fe/Cr superlattices at 4.2 K in external magnetic field H. The current and magnetic field were parallel to the [[miller indexes|[110]]] axis. The arrow to the right shows maximum resistance change. ''H''<sub>s</sub> is saturation field.<ref group=note name=n1/>]]
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| ==Formulation==
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| Magnetoresistance is the dependence of the [[electrical resistance]] of a sample on the strength of external magnetic field. Numerically, it is characterized by the value
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| : <math>\delta_H = \frac{R(0)-R(H)}{R(H)},</math>
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| where R(H) is the resistance of the sample in a magnetic field H, and R(0) corresponds to H = 0.<ref name="Hirota02"/> Alternative forms of this expression may use electrical resistivity instead of resistance, different sign of δ<sub>H</sub>,<ref name="Nikitin04"/> and are sometimes normalized by R(0) rather than R(H).<ref name="Pippard09_8"/>
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| The term "giant magnetoresistance" indicates that the value δ<sub>H</sub> for multilayer structures significantly exceeds the anisotropic magnetoresistance, which has a typical value within a few percent.<ref name="Chappert07"/><ref name="Hirota02_23"/>
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| ==History==
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| GMR was discovered in 1988 independently by the groups of Albert Fert of the [[University of Paris-Sud]], France, and Peter Grünberg of [[Forschungszentrum Jülich]], Germany. The practical significance of this experimental discovery was recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Fert and Grünberg in 2007.<ref name=nobel/>
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| ===Early steps===
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| The first mathematical model describing the effect of magnetization on the mobility of charge carriers in solids, related to the spin of those carriers, was reported in 1936. Experimental evidence of the potential enhancement of δ<sub>H</sub> has been known since the 1960s. By the late 1980s, the anisotropic magnetoresistance had been well explored,<ref name="Seitz57"/><ref name=r1/> but the corresponding value of δ<sub>H</sub> did not exceed a few percent.<ref name="Chappert07"/> The enhancement of δ<sub>H</sub> became possible with the advent of sample preparation techniques such as molecular beam epitaxy, which allowed manufacturing multilayer thin film with a thickness of several nanometers.<ref name="Fert"/>
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| ==Experiment and its interpretation==
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| Fert and Grünberg studied electrical resistance of structures incorporating ferromagnetic and non-ferromagnetic materials. In particular, Fert worked on multilayer films, and Grünberg in 1986 discovered the antiferromagnetic exchange interaction in Fe/Cr films.<ref name="Fert"/>
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| The GMR discovery work was carried out on (001)Fe/(001) Cr superlattices. The Fe and Cr layers were deposited in a high vacuum on a (001) GaAs substrate kept at 20 ° C.<ref name="Baibich88"/>
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| In Fe/Cr multilayers with 3-nm-thick iron layers, increasing the thickness of the non-magnetic Cr layers from 0.9 to 3 nm weakened the antiferromagnetic coupling between the Fe layers and reduced the demagnetization field. The latter also decreased when the sample was heated from 4.2 K to room temperature. Changing the thickness of the non-magnetic layers led to a significant reduction of the residual magnetization in the hysteresis loop. Electrical resistance changed by up to 50% with the external magnetic field at 4.2 K. Fert named the new effect giant magnetoresistance, to highlight its difference with the anisotropic magnetoresistance.<ref name="Baibich88"/>{{sfn|Tsymbal|2001|p=120}}
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| The discoverers suggested that the effect is based on spin-dependent scattering of electrons in the superlattice, particularly on the dependence of resistance of the layers on the relative orientations of magnetization and electron spins. <ref name="Baibich88"/> The theory of GMR for different directions of the current was developed in the next few years. In 1989, Camley and Barnaś calculated the "current in plane" (CIP) geometry, where the current flows along the layers, in the classical approximation,<ref name="Camey89"/> whereas Levy ''et al.'' used the quantum formalism.<ref name="Levi90"/> The theory of the GMR for the current perpendicular to the layers (current perpendicular to the plane or CPP geometry), known as the Valet-Fert theory, was reported in 1993.<ref name="Valet93"/> Applications favor the CPP geometry<ref name="Nagasaka05"/> because it results in a greater device sensitivity.{{sfn|Buschow|2005|p=580}}
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| ==Theory==
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| ===Fundamentals===
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| ====Spin-dependent scattering====
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| [[File:Electron density in magnets.svg|thumb|300px|Electronic [[density of states]] (DOS) in magnetic and non-magnetic metals. 1: the structure of two ferromagnetic and one non-magnetic layers (arrows indicate the direction of magnetization). 2: splitting of DOS for electrons with different spin directions for each layer (arrows indicate the spin direction). F: [[Fermi level]]. The magnetic moment is antiparallel to the direction of total spin at the Fermi level.]]
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| In magnetically ordered materials, the electrical resistance is crucially affected by scattering of electrons on the magnetic sublattice of the crystal, which is formed by crystallographically equivalent atoms with nonzero magnetic moments. Scattering depends on the relative orientations of the electron spins and those magnetic moments: it is weakest when they are parallel and strongest when they are antiparallel; it is relatively strong in the paramagnetic state, in which the magnetic moments of the atoms have random orientations.<ref name="Chappert07"/>{{sfn|Tsymbal|2001|p=122}}
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| For good conductors such as gold or copper, the [[Fermi level]] lies within the ''sp'' band, and the ''d'' band is completely filled. In ferromagnets, the dependence of electron-atom scattering on the orientation of their magnetic moments is related to the filling of the band responsible for the magnetic properties of the metal, e.g., 3''d'' band for iron, nickel or cobalt. The ''d'' band of ferromagnets is split, as it contains a different number of electrons with spins directed up and down. Therefore, the density of electronic states at the Fermi level is also different for spins pointing in opposite directions. The Fermi level for majority-spin electrons is located within the ''sp'' band, and their transport is similar in ferromagnets and non-magnetic metals. For minority-spin electrons the ''sp'' and ''d'' bands are hybridized, and the Fermi level lies within the ''d'' band. The hybridized ''spd'' band has a high density of states, which results in stronger scattering and thus shorter [[mean free path]] λ for minority-spin than majority-spin electrons. In cobalt-doped nickel, the ratio λ<sub>↑</sub>/λ<sub>↓</sub> can reach 20.{{sfn|Tsymbal|2001|pp=126–132}}
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| According to the [[Drude theory]], the conductivity is proportional to λ, which ranges from several to several tens of nanometers in thin metal films. Electrons "remember" the direction of spin within the so-called spin relaxation length (or spin diffusion length), which can significantly exceed the mean free path. Spin-dependent transport refers to the dependence of electrical conductivity on the spin direction of the charge carriers. In ferromagnets, it occurs due to electron transitions between the unsplit 4''s'' and split 3''d'' bands.<ref name="Chappert07"/>
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| In some materials, the interaction between electrons and atoms is the weakest when their magnetic moments are antiparallel rather than parallel. A combination of both types of materials can result in a so-called inverse GMR effect.<ref name="Chappert07"/>{{sfn|Buschow|2005|p=254}}
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| <center>
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| {{Gallery
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| |title= [[Band structure]] (left) and [[density of states]] (right)
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| |File:DOS Cu.svg| Copper (non-magnetic metal). F – the Fermi level. The vertical axis is energy in eV.
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| |File:DOS Co majority.svg| Cobalt (majority spins)
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| |File:DOS Co minority.svg| Cobalt (minority spins)
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| }}
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| </center>
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| ====CIP and CPP geometries====
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| [[File:Spin-valve CIP CPP.svg|thumb|left|[[Spin valve]]s in the reading head of a sensor in the CIP (left) and CPP (right) geometries. Red: leads providing current to the sensor, green and yellow: ferromagnetic and non-magnetic layers. V: potential difference.]]
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| Electric current can be passed through magnetic superlattices in two ways. In the current in plane (CIP) geometry, the current flows along the layers, and the electrodes are located on one side of the structure. In the current perpendicular to plane (CPP) configuration, the current is passed perpendicular to the layers, and the electrodes are located on different sides of the superlattice.<ref name="Chappert07"/> The CPP geometry results in more than twice higher GMR, but is more difficult to realize in practice than the CIP configuration.<ref name="KhvalkovskiiWeb"/><ref name=r2/>
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| ====Carrier transport through a magnetic superlattice====
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| [[File:Spin-valve GMR.svg|thumb|300px| Spin valve based on the GMR effect. FM: ferromagnetic layer (arrows indicate the direction of magnetization), NM: non-magnetic layer. Electrons with spins up and down scatter differently in the valve.]]
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| Magnetic ordering differs in superlattices with ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interaction between the layers. In the former case, the magnetization directions are the same in different ferromagnetic layers in the absence of applied magnetic field, whereas in the latter case, opposite directions alternate in the multilayer. Electrons traveling through the ferromagnetic superlattice interact with it much weaker when their spin directions are opposite to the magnetization of the lattice than when they are parallel to it. Such anisotropy is not observed for the antiferromagnetic superlattice; as a result, it scatters electrons stronger than the ferromagnetic superlattice and exhibits a higher electrical resistance.<ref name="Chappert07"/>
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| Applications of the GMR effect require dynamic switching between the parallel and antiparallel magnetization of the layers in a superlattice. In first approximation, the energy density of the interaction between two ferromagnetic layers separated by a non-magnetic layer is proportional to the scalar product of their magnetizations:
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| : <math>w = - J (\mathbf M_1 \cdot \mathbf M_2). </math>
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| The coefficient ''J'' is an oscillatory function of the thickness of the non-magnetic layer d<sub>s</sub>; therefore ''J'' can change its magnitude and sign. If the d<sub>s</sub> value corresponds to the antiparallel state then an external field can switch the superlattice from the antiparallel state (high resistance) to the parallel state (low resistance). The total resistance of the structure can be written as
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| : <math>R = R_0 + \Delta R \sin^2 \frac{\theta}{2},</math>
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| where R<sub>0</sub> is the resistance of ferromagnetic superlattice, ΔR is the GMR increment and θ is the angle between the magnetizations of adjacent layers.<ref name="KhvalkovskiiWeb"/>
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| ===Mathematical description===
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| The GMR phenomenon can be described using two spin-related conductivity channels corresponding to the conduction of electrons, for which the resistance is minimum or maximum. The relation between them is often defined in terms of the coefficient of the spin anisotropy β. This coefficient can be defined using the minimum and maximum of the specific electrical resistivity ρ<sub>F±</sub> for the spin-polarized current in the form
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| : <math>\rho_{F\pm}=\frac{2\rho_F}{1\pm\beta},</math>
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| where ''ρ<sub>F</sub>'' is the average resistivity of the ferromagnet.{{sfn|Tretyak|2002|p=243}}
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| ====Resistor model for CIP and CPP structures====
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| If scattering of charge carriers at the interface between the ferromagnetic and non-magnetic metal is small, and the direction of the electron spins persists long enough, it is convenient to consider a model in which the total resistance of the sample is a combination of the resistances of the magnetic and non-magnetic layers.
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| In this model, there are two conduction channels for electrons with various spin directions relative to the magnetization of the layers. Therefore, the equivalent circuit of the GMR structure consists of two parallel connections corresponding to each of the channels. In this case, the GMR can be expressed as
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| : <math>\delta_H = \frac{\Delta R}{R}=\frac{R_{\uparrow\downarrow}-R_{\uparrow\uparrow}}{R_{\uparrow\uparrow}}=\frac{(\rho_{F+}-\rho_{F-})^2}{(2\rho_{F+}+\chi\rho_N)(2\rho_{F-}+\chi\rho_N)}.</math>
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| Here the subscript of R denote collinear and oppositely oriented magnetization in layers, ''χ = b/a'' is the thickness ratio of the magnetic and non-magnetic layers, and ρ<sub>N</sub> is the resistivity of non-magnetic metal. This expression is applicable for both CIP and CPP structures. Under the condition <math>\chi\rho_N \ll \rho_{F\pm}</math> this relationship can be simplified using the coefficient of the spin asymmetry
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| : <math>\delta_H = \frac{\beta^2}{1-\beta^2}.</math>
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| Such a device, with resistance depending on the orientation of electron spin, is called a [[spin valve]]. It is "open", if the magnetizations of its layers are parallel, and "closed" otherwise.{{sfn|Tretyak|2002|pp=258–261, 247–248}}
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| ====Valet-Fert model====
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| In 1993, Thierry Valet and Albert Fert presented a model for the giant magnetoresistance in the CPP geometry, based on the Boltzmann equations. In this model the chemical potential inside the magnetic layer is split into two functions, corresponding to electrons with spins parallel and antiparallel to the magnetization of the layer. If the non-magnetic layer is sufficiently thin then in the external field E<sub>0</sub> the amendments to the electrochemical potential and the field inside the sample will take the form
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| : <math>\Delta\mu = \frac{\beta}{1-\beta^2}eE_0l_se^{z/l_s},</math>
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| : <math>\Delta E = \frac{\beta^2}{1-\beta^2}eE_0l_se^{z/l_s},</math>
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| where ''ℓ''<sub>s</sub> is the average length of spin relaxation, and the z coordinate is measured from the boundary between the magnetic and non-magnetic layers (z < 0 corresponds to the ferromagnetic).<ref name="Valet93"/> Thus electrons with a larger chemical potential will accumulate at the boundary of the ferromagnet.<ref name=r5/> This can be represented by the potential of spin accumulation ''V''<sub>AS</sub> or by the so-called interface resistance (inherent to the boundary between a ferromagnet and non-magnetic material)
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| : <math>R_i= \frac{\beta(\mu_{\uparrow\downarrow}-\mu_{\uparrow\uparrow})}{2ej} = \frac{\beta^2l_{sN}\rho_N}{1+(1-\beta^2)l_{sN}\rho_N/(l_{sF}\rho_F)},</math>
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| where ''j'' is current density in the sample, ''ℓ''<sub>sN</sub> and ''ℓ''<sub>sF</sub> are the length of the spin relaxation in a non-magnetic and magnetic materials, respectively.<ref name=r6/>
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| ==Device preparation==
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| ===Materials and experimental data===
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| Many combinations of materials exhibit GMR,<ref name="phys_tue-Coehoorn"/> and the most common are the following:
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| *FeCr <ref name="Baibich88"/>
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| *Co<sub>10</sub>Cu<sub>90</sub>: δ<sub>H</sub> = 40% at room temperature <ref name="Granovskyi11"/>
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| *[110]Co<sub>95</sub>Fe<sub>5</sub>/Cu: δ<sub>H</sub> = 110% at room temperature.<ref name="phys_tue-Coehoorn" />
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| The magnetoresistance depends on many parameters such as the geometry of the device (CIP or CPP), its temperature, and the thicknesses of ferromagnetic and non-magnetic layers. At a temperature of 4.2 K and a thickness of cobalt layers of 1.5 nm, increasing the thickness of copper layers d<sub>Cu</sub> from 1 to 10 nm decreased δ<sub>H</sub> from 80 to 10% in the CIP geometry. Meanwhile, in the CPP geometry the maximum of δ<sub>H</sub> (125%) was observed for d<sub>Cu</sub> = 2.5 nm, and increasing d<sub>Cu</sub> to 10 nm reduced δ<sub>H</sub> to 60% in an oscillating manner.{{sfn|Buschow|2005|p=248}}
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| When a Co(1.2 nm)/Cu(1.1 nm) superlattice was heated from near zero to 300 K, its δ<sub>H</sub> decreased from 40 to 20% in the CIP geometry, and from 100 to 55% in the CPP geometry.<ref name="Bass99"/>
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| The non-magnetic layers can be non-metallic. For example, δ<sub>H</sub> up to 40% was demonstrated for organic layers at 11 K.<ref name="Sun10"/> Graphene spin valves of various designs exhibited δ<sub>H</sub> of about 12% at 7 K and 10% at 300 K, far below the theoretical limit of 109%.<ref name="Qin10"/>
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| The GMR effect can be enhanced by spin filters that select electrons with a certain spin orientation; they are made of metals such as cobalt. For a filter of thickness ''t'' the change in conductivity ΔG can be expressed as
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| : <math>\Delta G = \Delta G_{SV} + \Delta G_f (1 - e^{\beta t/\lambda}),</math>
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| where ΔG<sub>SV</sub> is change in the conductivity of the spin valve without the filter, ΔG<sub>f</sub> is the maximum increase in conductivity with the filter, and β is a parameter of the filter material.<ref name="Heinrich05_161-163"/>
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| ===Types of GMR===
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| GMR is often classed by the type of devices which exhibit the effect.<ref name="UNL_TE"/>
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| ====Films====
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| =====Antiferromagnetic superlattices=====
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| GMR in films was first observed by Fert and Grünberg in a study of superlattices composed of ferromagnetic and non-magnetic layers. The thickness of the non-magnetic layers was chosen such that the interaction between the layers was antiferromagnetic and the magnetization in adjacent magnetic layers was antiparallel. Then an external magnetic field could make the magnetization vectors parallel thereby affecting the electrical resistance of the structure.<ref name="Baibich88" />
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| Magnetic layers in such structures interact through antiferromagnetic coupling, which results in the oscillating dependence of the GMR on the thickness of the non-magnetic layer. In the first magnetic field sensors using antiferromagnetic superlattices, the saturation field was very large, up to tens of thousands of [[oersted]]s, due to the strong antiferromagnetic interaction between their layers (made of chromium, iron or cobalt) and the strong anisotropy fields in them. Therefore, the sensitivity of the devices was very low. The use of [[permalloy]] for the magnetic and silver for the non-magnetic layers lowered the saturation field to tens of oersteds.<ref name="Nalwa02_518-519"/>
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| =====Spin valves using exchange bias=====
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| In the most successful spin valves the GMR effect originates from exchange bias. They comprise a sensitive layer, "fixed" layer and an antiferromagnetic layer. The last layer freezes the magnetization direction in the "fixed" layer. The sensitive and antiferromagnetic layers are made thin to reduce the resistance of the structure. The valve reacts to the external magnetic field by changing the magnetization direction in the sensitive layer relatively to the "fixed" layer. <ref name="Nalwa02_518-519"/>
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| The main difference of these spin valves from other multilayer GMR devices is the monotonic dependence of the amplitude of the effect on the thickness ''d<sub>N</sub>'' of the non-magnetic layers:
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| : <math>\delta_H(d_N) = \delta_{H0} \frac{\exp\left(-d_N/\lambda_N\right)}{1 + d_N/d_0},</math>
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| where δ<sub>H0</sub> is a normalization constant, λ<sub>N</sub> is the mean free path of electrons in the non-magnetic material, ''d''<sub>0</sub> is effective thickness that includes interaction between layers.<ref name="UNL_TE"/><ref name="Nalwa02_525-526"/> The dependence on the thickness of the ferromagnetic layer can be given as:
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| : <math>\delta_H(d_F) = \delta_{H1} \frac{1 - \exp\left(-d_F/\lambda_F\right)}{1 + d_F/d_0}.</math>
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| The parameters have the same meaning as in the previous equation, but they now refer to the ferromagnetic layer.<ref name="phys_tue-Coehoorn"/>
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| =====Non-interacting multilayers (pseudospin valves)=====
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| GMR can also be observed in the absence of antiferromagnetic coupling layers. In this case, the magnetoresistance results from the differences in the coercive forces (for example, it is smaller for permalloy than cobalt). In multilayers such as permalloy/Cu/Co/Cu the external magnetic field switches the direction of saturation magnetization to parallel in strong fields and to antiparallel in weak fields. Such systems exhibit a lower saturation field and a larger δ<sub>H</sub> than superlattices with antiferromagnetic coupling.<ref name="Nalwa02_518-519"/> A similar effect is observed in Co/Cu structures. The existence of these structures means that GMR does not require interlayer coupling, and can originate from a distribution of the magnetic moments that can be controlled by an external field.<ref name="Pu96_122"/>
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| =====Inverse GMR effect=====
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| In the inverse GMR, the resistance is minimum for the antiparallel orientation of the magnetization in the layers. Inverse GMR is observed when the magnetic layers are composed of different materials, such as NiCr/Cu/Co/Cu. The resistivity for electrons with opposite spins can be written as <math>\rho_{\uparrow,\downarrow}=\frac{2\rho_F}{1\pm\beta}</math>; it has different values, i.e. different coefficients β, for spin-up and spin-down electrons. If the NiCr layer is not too thin, its contribution may exceed that of the Co layer, resulting in inverse GMR.{{sfn|Buschow|2005|p=254}} Note that the GMR inversion depends on the sign of the ''product'' of the coefficients β in adjacent ferromagnetic layers, but not on the signs of individual coefficients.<ref name="Bass99"/>
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| Inverse GMR is also observed if NiCr alloy is replaced by vanadium-doped nickel, but not for doping of nickel with iron, cobalt, manganese, gold or copper.<ref name="Guimaraes09_132"/>
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| ====GMR in granular structures====
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| GMR in granular alloys of ferromagnetic and non-magnetic metals was discovered in 1992 and subsequently explained by the spin-dependent scattering of charge carriers at the surface and in the bulk of the grains. The grains form ferromagnetic clusters about 10 nm in diameter embedded in a non-magnetic metal, forming a kind of superlattice. A necessary condition for the GMR in such structures is poor mutual solubility its components (e.g., cobalt and copper). Their properties strongly depend on the measurement and annealing temperature. They can also exhibit inverse GMR.<ref name="Granovskyi11"/><ref name=r7/>
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| ==Applications==
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| ===Spin-valve sensors===
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| ====General principle====
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| [[File:GMR Sensor Nachbau 01.jpg|thumb|300px|A copy of the GMR sensor developed by Peter Grünberg]]
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| One of the main applications of the GMR is magnetic field sensors, e.g., in hard disk drives<ref name="KhvalkovskiiWeb"/> and biosensors,<ref name="phys_tue-Coehoorn"/> as well detectors of oscillations in MEMS.<ref name="phys_tue-Coehoorn" /> A typical GMR-based sensor consists of seven layers:
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| #Silicon substrate,
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| #Binder layer,
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| #Sensing (non-fixed) layer,
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| #Non-magnetic layer,
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| #Fixing (pinning) layer,
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| #Antiferromagnetic (fixed) layer,
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| #Protective layer.
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| The binder and protective layers are often made of [[tantalum]], and a typical non-magnetic material is copper. In the sensing layer, magnetization can be reoriented by the external magnetic field; it is typically made of NiFe or cobalt alloys. FeMn or NiMn can be used for the antiferromagnetic layer. The direction of its magnetization is defined by the pinning layer, which is made of a magnetic material such as cobalt. Such a sensor has an asymmetric hysteresis loop owing to the presence of a magnetically hard, pinning layer.<ref name=r8/><ref name="DodrillLSC"/>
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| Spin valves may exhibit anisotropic magnetoresistance, which leads to an asymmetry in the sensitivity curve.<ref name="Hartmann00_111"/>
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| ====Hard disk drives====
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| In [[hard disk drives]] (HDDs), information is encoded using magnetic domains, and the direction of their magnetization is associated with the logical levels 0 and 1. There are two recording methods: longitudinal and perpendicular.
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| In the longitudinal method, the magnetization is normal to the surface. A transition region (domain walls) is formed between domains, in which the magnetic field exits the material. If the domain wall is located at the interface of two north-pole domains then the field is directed outward, and for two south-pole domains it is directed inward. To read the direction of the magnetic field above the domain wall, the magnetization direction is fixed normal to the surface in the antiferromagnetic layer and parallel to the surface in the sensing layer. Changing the direction of the external magnetic field deflects the magnetization in the sensing layer. When the field tends to align the magnetizations in the sensing and fixed layers, the electrical resistance of the sensor decreases, and vice versa.{{sfn|Tretyak|2002|pp=285–286}}
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| ===Magnetic RAM===
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| [[File:Spin-valve in MRAM.svg|thumb|300px|The use of a spin valve in MRAM. 1: spin valve as a memory cell (arrows indicate the presence of ferromagnetic layers), 2: row line, 3: column line. Ellipses with arrows denote the magnetic field lines around the row and column lines when electric current flows through them.]]
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| A cell of [[magnetoresistive random-access memory]] (MRAM) has a structure similar to the spin-valve sensor. The value of the stored bits can be encoded via the magnetization direction in the sensor layer; it is read by measuring the resistance of the structure. The advantages of this technology are independence of power supply (the information is preserved when the power is switched off owing to the potential barrier for reorienting the magnetization), low power consumption and high speed.<ref name="KhvalkovskiiWeb"/>
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| In a typical GMR-based storage unit, a CIP structure is located between two wires oriented perpendicular to each other. These conductors are called lines of rows and columns. Pulses of electrical current passing through the lines generate a vortex magnetic field, which affects the GMR structure. The field lines have ellipsoid shapes, and the field direction (clockwise or counterclockwise) is determined by the direction of the current in the line. In the GMR structure, the magnetization is oriented along the line.
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| The direction of the field produced by the line of the column is almost parallel to the magnetic moments, and it can not reorient them. Line of the row is perpendicular, and regardless of the magnitude of the field can rotate the magnetization by only 90 °. With the simultaneous passage of pulses along the row and column lines, of the total magnetic field at the location of the GMR structure will be directed at an acute angle with respect to one point and an obtuse to others. If the value of the field exceeds some critical value, the latter changes its direction.
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| There are several storage and reading methods for the described cell. In one method, the information is stored in the sensing layer; it is read via resistance measurement and is erased upon reading. In another scheme, the information is kept in the fixed layer, which requires higher recording currents compared to reading currents.{{sfn|Tretyak|2002|pp=289–291}}
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| [[Tunnel magnetoresistance]] (TMR) is an extension of spin-valve GMR, in which the electrons travel with their spins oriented perpendicularly to the layers across a thin insulating tunnel barrier (replacing the non-ferromagnetic spacer). This allows to achieve a larger impedance, a larger [[magnetoresistance]] value (~10x at room temperature) and a negligible temperature dependence. TMR has now replaced GMR in MRAMs and [[disk drives]], in particular for high area densities and perpendicular recording.<ref name="Rosnano_MT"/>
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| ===Other applications===
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| Magnetoresistive insulators for contactless signal transmission between two electrically isolated parts of electrical circuits were first demonstrated in 1997 as an alternative to [[opto-isolator]]s. A Wheatstone bridge of four identical GMR devices is insensitive to a uniform magnetic field and reacts only when the field directions are antiparallel in the neighboring arms of the bridge. Such devices were reported in 2003 and may be used as rectifiers with a linear frequency response.<ref name="phys_tue-Coehoorn" />
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/magnetacademy/gmr/ Giant Magnetoresistance: The Really Big Idea Behind a Very Tiny Tool] National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
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| * [http://www.research.ibm.com/research/gmr.html Presentation of GMR-technique (IBM Research)]
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