Anomalous electrical transport properties of a quenched iron film system

An iron film system, deposited on glass surfaces by thermal evaporation method and quenched with a floating oil layer immediately after the deposition, has been fabricated. The temperature dependence of the resistance and the transversal magnetoresistance (MR) of the iron films have been studied. The experiment shows that, as the temperature decreases, the sample resistance increases first and then drops monotonically, finally it increases again. Furthermore, a crossover of MR from positive to negative is observed as the magnetic field increases. It is proposed that these anomalous phenomena originate from the characteristic microstructure of the samples.