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The creation of a giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect in a spinodally decomposed and deformed Cu-20% Ni-20% Fe alloy is reported. The alloy is processed to contain a locally multilayered superlattice-like structure with alternating ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic layers with a size scale of 10-20 Å. The microstructural modification produced a dramatic improvement in room-temperature magnetoresistance ratio from ∼0.6 to ∼5%. The observed magnetoresistance is most likely related to the spin-dependent scattering at the two-phase interface and in the ferromagnetic phase, although the exact mechanism involved may be qualitatively different from the usual GMR picture. A rather unusual temperature-dependence of magnetoresistance ratio, i.e., the room-temperature value being greater than that at 4.2 K, was found.
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Chen, L.H., Jin, S., Tiefel, T.H. et al. Magnetoresistance in a deformed Cu-Ni-Fe alloy with ultrafine multilayer structure. Journal of Materials Research 9, 1134–1139 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.1994.1134
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