Magnetic and transport properties of NiO/Pd multilayers were investigated.
The NiO/Pd multilayers show ferromagnetic behavior. The temperature depende
nce of magnetoresistance shows a negative cusp around the Curie temperature
, which is typical of ferromagnets, This result seems to support that Pd in
NiO/Pd multilayers is ferromagnetic. Oscillation of the magnetization and
the Curie temperature as a function of the number of layers was observed fo
r NiO/Pd several layered films. It implies that there is some magnetic inte
raction between Pd layers through NiO layer. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.
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