Abstract
We performed magnetoresistance (MR) measurements on Co/Pd multilayers with perpendicular magnetization anisotropy, as a function of external magnetic field direction and magnitude. We find that anisotropic MR for magnetization perpendicular to plane (and to the current) is surprisingly larger than the anisotropic MR when magnetization is in-plane but perpendicular to the current. We develop a refinement process for accurately and easily extracting the anisotropy energies from the full set of MR measurements. We demonstrate its effectiveness for micron-scale electrodes of the multilayers. Here, using the additional difference in MR of the out-of-plane direction, we extract both the shape anisotropy energy and perpendicular anisotropy energy.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 173911 |
Journal | Journal of Applied Physics |
Volume | 115 |
Issue number | 17 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 7 May 2014 |