July 1, 1998
Author(s)
Robert D. McMichael, P J. Chen, William F. Egelhoff Jr.
… composition including Au, Ta and Ta x O y . Samples with 5.0 nm thick cap layers of Au showed a reduction in giant magnetoresistance (GMR) from 9.3% to 3.6% after a 0.5 hr anneals at 250 C. As a function of time, the sample … follows an Arrhenius law, T = To exp (δE/kT), with δE = 1.29 0.03 eV and To on the order of 10 -9 s. These parameters, …