Abstract
Non-monotonic dependence of anomalous Hall resistivity on temperature and magnetization, including a sign change, was observed in Fe/Gd bilayers. To understand the intriguing observations, we fabricated the Fe/Gd bilayers and single layers of Fe and Gd simultaneously. The temperature and field dependences of longitudinal resistivity, Hall resistivity and magnetization in these films have also been carefully measured. The analysis of these data reveals that these intriguing features are due to the opposite signs of Hall resistivity/or spin polarization and different Curie temperatures of Fe and Gd single-layer films. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2010
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 27004 |
Journal | EPL (Europhysics Letters) |
Volume | 90 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 11 2010 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: We thank Prof. K. W. WONG for valuable discussions on the Berry phase theory. The work described in this paper was supported by grants from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Project No. 604407) and the National Science Foundation of China (Nos. 50729101 and 50525101).