Strong crystal anisotropy of magneto-transport property in Fe3Si epitaxial film

✍ Scribed by H.Y. Hung; S.Y. Huang; P. Chang; W.C. Lin; Y.C. Liu; S.F. Lee; M. Hong; J. Kwo

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 635 KB
• Volume: 323
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-0248
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2010.11.075

✦ Synopsis

This work reports the magneto-anisotropy property of epitaxial Fe 3 Si film grown on GaAs (0 0 1) substrate by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). We present a strong dependence of anisotropic magnetoresistance (MR) on field in the Fe 3 Si film plane. The electron transport behavior is highly dependent on the direction of the current either parallel or perpendicular to the magnetic easy axis. By altering the direction of current from magnetic hard axis to magnetic easy axis, the unconventional behavior switches to normal anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR). In addition, the anisotropic behaviors were also observed from the magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) measurement, which demonstrates unusual anisotropic properties with the crystalline anisotropic constant K 1 ¼(3.8 7 0.2) Â 10 4 erg/cm 3 and uni-axial anisotropy K u ¼ (1.2 7 0.04) Â 10 4 erg/cm 3 . The ratio K 1 /K u was used to account for the MR.