Wang, W. H., Ren, X. B., Wu, G. H., Przybylski, M., Barthel, J., Kirschner, J.
Magnetic and transport properties of epitaxial Co2MnSi films
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 41, (10),pp 2805-2807 (2005)
We report on magnetic and magnetotransport properties of single-crystalline Co2MnSi films grown by using conventional pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method on moderately heated semiconductor GaAs(001) substrates. The films exhibit the expected high Curie temperature and a strong in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy with the easy axis of magnetization along the [1-10] direction. A saturation
magnetization of 950 emu/cm3 was measured at 5 K. The temperature dependence of the resistivity shows metallic behavior down to low temperatures. At 5 K, a rather large negative magnetoresistance (MR) of 1.26% has also been observed.