Electrical trans
port measurements on com
posite Fe
33.7Ta
9.5O
56.8 nanogranular magnetoresistive film
pre
pared by su
personic
plasma jet technique are re
ported. The tem
perature de
pendence of the resistance
lnRphs/BQ1.GIF>Tp>−1/2p> correlates with a broad size distribution of Fe-nanocrystallites. The differential conductance
G(V) curves reveal a
presence of tunneling in the range 300–4K. The sha
pe of the
G(V,T) curves below
phs/BQ1.GIF>160K indicates the
presence of Coulomb blockade.