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Resistance Changes Similar to Ballistic Magnetoresistance in Electrodeposited Nanocontacts
Published
Author(s)
J Mallett, Erik B. Svedberg, H Ettedgui, Thomas P. Moffat, Alexander J. Shapiro, P J. Chen, L Gan
Abstract
We have devloped an electrochemical system to allow the resistance of two metal microelectrodes grown to contact to be established and maintained automatically. A thin-film geometry was used for the microelectrodes to suppress the magnetoresistive artifact possible in a two-wire geometry. The sysyem allows contacts to be maintained at a given resistance for many hours and for contact resistances to be systematically varied between approximately 2Ω and 1KΩ reversibly. In situ magnetoresistance measurements at each of the ten chosen values of initial resistance indicated no significant effect for magnetic fields of +300mT (3000Oe) applied in any orientation.
Citation
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
84
Issue
No. 2
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
electrochemical, magnetoresistive, resistance
Citation
Mallett, J.
, Svedberg, E.
, Ettedgui, H.
, Moffat, T.
, Shapiro, A.
, Chen, P.
and Gan, L.
(2004),
Resistance Changes Similar to Ballistic Magnetoresistance in Electrodeposited Nanocontacts, Applied Physics Letters
(Accessed October 14, 2025)