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CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES

Grain Size Effect on Electrical Conductivity and Giant Magnetoresistance of Bulk Magnetic Polycrystals

Luo Wei et al 2009 Chinese Phys. Lett. 26 117502 (4pp)   doi: 10.1088/0256-307X/26/11/117502  Help

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Luo Wei, Zhu Lin-Li and Zheng Xiao-Jing
Key Laboratory of Mechanics on Western Disaster and Environment (Ministry of Education) and Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000
E-mail: xjzheng@lzu.edu.cn (Zheng Xiao-Jing)

Abstract. By solving the Boltzmann transport equation and considering the spin-dependent grain boundary scattering, the distribution of electrons in grains and the electrical transport properties in the applied magnetic field are studied. With regard to the dominant influence of grain boundary scattering which is taken as a boundary condition for the electrical transport, the grain size-dependent electrical conductivity is investigated. In addition, the reorientation of the relative magnetization between grains brings the change of the electron spin when the magnetonanocrystalline material is subjected to the magnetic field, resulting in the remarkable giant magnetoresistance effect.

PACS numbers: 75.47.De, 73.43.Qt, 72.20.−i

Print publication: Issue 11 (November 2009)
Received 15 July 2009

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