Domain wall motion in synthetic Co2Si nanowires |
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Authors: | Liu Gang Lin Yung-Chen Liao Lei Liu Lixin Chen Yu Liu Yuan Weiss Nathan O Zhou Hailong Huang Yu Duan Xiangfeng |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. |
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Abstract: | We report the synthesis of single crystalline Co(2)Si nanowires and the electrical transport studies of single Co(2)Si nanowire devices at low temperature. The butterfly shaped magnetoresistance shows interesting ferromagnetic features, including negative magnetoresistance, hysteretic switch fields, and stepwise drops in magnetoresistance. The nonsmooth stepwise magnetoresistance response is attributed to magnetic domain wall pinning and depinning motion in the Co(2)Si nanowires probably at crystal or morphology defects. The temperature dependence of the domain wall depinning field is observed and described by a model based on thermally assisted domain wall depinning over a single energy barrier. |
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