%0 Journal Article
%T Interlayer exchange coupling and giant magnetoresistance in Fe/V (001) superlattices
%A A. Broddefalk
%A R. Mathieu
%A P. Nordblad
%A P. Blomqvist
%A R. W£¿ppling
%A J. Lu
%A E. Olsson
%J Physics
%D 2001
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevB.65.214430
%X Magnetization and magnetoresistivity studies of Fe/V (001) superlattices are reported. The first giant magnetoresistance peak with respect to the vanadium and iron layer thicknesses is investigated. The interlayer antiferromagnetic coupling strength is found to show a peak at a vanadium layer thickness of 13 atomic monolayers ($\approx$ 20 \AA) with a full width at half maximum of about 2 monolayers. The antiferromagnetic coupling shows a maximum at an iron layer thickness of about 6 monolayers ($\approx$ 9 \AA) for series of superlattices with vanadium thicknesses around 13 monolayers. The magnitude of the giant magnetoresistance shows a similar variation as the antiferromagnetic coupling strength.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111255v1