Colossal magnetoresistance in La-Ca-Mn-O ferromagnetic thin films (invited)
- 15 November 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 76 (10), 6929-6933
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.358119
Abstract
A colossal magnetoresistance effect with more than a thousandfold change in resistivity (ΔR/RH=127 000% at 77 K, H=6 T) has been obtained in epitaxially grown La‐Ca‐Mn‐O thin films. The effect is negative and isotropic with respect to the field orientations. The magnetoresistance is strongly temperature dependent, and exhibits a sharp peak that can be shifted to near room temperature by adjusting processing parameters. Near‐room‐temperature ΔR/RH values of ∼1300% at 260 K and ∼400% at 280 K have been observed. The presence of grain boundaries appears to be detrimental to achieving very large magnetoresistance in the lanthanum manganite films. The orders of magnitude change in electrical resistivity could be useful for various magnetic and electric device applications.Keywords
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