Giant tunnel magnetoresistance and high annealing stability in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions with synthetic pinned layer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Lee, Y M ^a   Hayakawa, J ^a,b   Ikeda, S ^a   Matsukura, F ^a   Ohno, H ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COBALT COMPOUNDS; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; RUTHENIUM;

MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS (MTJ); SPACERS; SYNTHETIC PINNED LAYERS; TUNNEL MAGNETORESISTANCE (TMR);

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 33746604013     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2234720     Document Type: Article

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