Large exchange bias and high blocking temperature of MgO-barrier-MTJs with L12-ordered Mn3Ir

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3535-3537

  Komagaki, Koujiro ^a   Yamada, Kouji ^a   Noma, Kenji ^a   Kanai, Hitoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Kazuo ^a   Uehara, Yuji ^a   Tsunoda, Masakiyo ^b   Takahashi, Migaku ^b  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blocking temperature; Exchange bias; L12(ordered) Mn 3Ir; MgO barrier; Tunnel junction; Tunnel magnetoresistance

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COBALT COMPOUNDS; IRIDIUM; MAGNESIA; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETORESISTANCE;

BLOCKING TEMPERATURE; EXCHANGE BIAS PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 34547404113     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.893695     Document Type: Article

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