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Structural ordering driven anisotropic magnetoresistance, anomalous Hall resistance and its topological overtones in full-Heusler Co2MnSi thin films
We report the evolution of crystallographic structure, magnetic ordering and
electronic transport in thin films of full-Heusler alloy CoMnSi deposited
on (001) MgO with annealing temperatures (). By increasing the from
300C to 600C, the film goes from a disordered nanocrystalline
phase to ordered and finally to the ordered alloy. The saturation
magnetic moment improves with structural ordering and approaches the
Slater-Pauling value of per formula unit for =
600C. At this stage the films are soft magnets with coercive and
saturation fields as low as 7 mT and 350 mT, respectively. Remarkable
effects of improved structural order are also seen in longitudinal resistivity
() and residual resistivity ratio. A model based upon electronic
transparency of grain boundaries illucidates the transition from a state of
negative to positive with improved structural order. The
Hall resistivity () derives contribution from the normal scattering
of charge carriers in external magnetic field, the anomalous effect originating
from built-in magnetization and a small but distinct topological Hall effect in
the disordered phase. The carrier concentration () and mobility () have
been extracted from the high field data. The highly ordered films
are characterized by and of 1.19 10 m and 0.4
cm at room temperature. The dependence of on
indicates the dominance of skew scattering in our films, which
shows a monotonic drop on raising the . The topological Hall effect is
analyzed for the films annealed at 300C. ......Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, 1 tabl
Comparison of CSMA based MAC protocols of wireless sensor networks
Energy conservation has been an important area of interest in Wireless Sensor
networks (WSNs). Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols play an important role
in energy conservation. In this paper, we describe CSMA based MAC protocols for
WSN and analyze the simulation results of these protocols. We implemented
S-MAC, T-MAC, B-MAC, B-MAC+, X-MAC, DMAC and Wise-MAC in TOSSIM, a simulator
which unlike other simulators simulates the same code running on real hardware.
Previous surveys mainly focused on the classification of MAC protocols
according to the techniques being used or problem dealt with and presented a
theoretical evaluation of protocols. This paper presents the comparative study
of CSMA based protocols for WSNs, showing which MAC protocol is suitable in a
particular environment and supports the arguments with the simulation results.
The comparative study can be used to find the best suited MAC protocol for
wireless sensor networks in different environments.Comment: International Journal of AdHoc Network Systems, Volume 2, Number 2,
April 201
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