Bulk metallic multilayers produced by repeated press-rolling and their perpendicular magnetoresistance

Abstract

Bulk Fe/Ag multilayers with layer thickness of about 10 nm have been successfully fabricated by repeated press-rolling directly from a macroscopic stack of metal sheets. The press-rolled multilayers exhibited giant magnetoresistance of 13% in the current perpendicular to the plane geometry and 4% in the current in the plane geometry at 5 K.