Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Studies of the evolution of electrical resistance in an external applied magnetic field, B, as well as with temperature, T, on Cu86Co14 and Cu92Co8 as quenched and annealed melt-spun ribbons, reveal that magnetoresistance, MR, ΔR(B,T)=R(B)-R(0) scales with B/T. Furthermore, it found that annealing up to 600 °C scales the magnetic moment of the Co-rich superparamagnetic nanoparticles such that, the data for the field dependence of the MR obtained at various temperatures collapses onto the same unique and universal curve f(mB/T) with the Langevin variable mB/T governing the overall behaviour.