Magnetoresistance and switching properties of Co-Fe/Pd-based perpendicular anisotropy single- and dual-spin valves

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2612-2615

  Law, Randall ^a,b   Sbiaa, Rachid ^a   Liew, Thomas ^a   Chong, Tow Chong ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Dual spin valves (DSVs); Giant magnetoresistance (GMR); Multistate storage; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 60349129446     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2002631     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. R. D. Gomez, T. V. Luu, A. O. Pak, K. J. Kirk, and J. N. Chapman, "Domain configurations of nanostructured Permalloy elements," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 85, pp. 6163-6165, 1999.
2. J. Shi, S. Tehrani, and M. R. Scheinfein, "Geometry dependence of magnetization vortices in patterned submicron NiFe elements," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 76, pp. 2588-2590, 2000.
3. S. Mangin et al., "Current-induced magnetization reversal in nanopillars with perpendicular anisotropy," Nature Mater., vol. 5, pp. 210-215, 2006.
4. H. Meng and J. P. Wang, "Spin transfer in nanomagnetic devices with perpendicular anisotropy," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 88, 2006, 172506.
5. 0-FePt layers," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 88, 2006, 172504.
6. S. Hashimoto, Y. Ochiai, and K. Aso, "Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and magnetostriction of sputtered Co/Pd and Co/Pt multilayered films," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 66, pp. 4909-4916, 1989.
7. H. Gong, D. Litvinov, T. J. Klemmer, D.N. Lambeth, and J. K. Howard, "Seed layer effects on the magnetoresistive properties of NiFe films," IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. 36, pp. 2963-2965, 2000.
8. M. T. Johnson, P. J. H. Bloemen, F. J. A. van den Broeder, and J. J. de Vries, "Magnetic anisotropy in metallic multilayers," Rep. Prog. Phys., vol. 59, pp. 1409-1458, 1996.
9. B. N. Engel, C. D. England, R. A. van Leeuwen, M. H. Wiedmann, and C. M. Falco, "Magnetocrystalline and magnetoelastic anisotropy in epitaxial Co/Pd superlattices," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 70, pp. 5873-5875, 1991.
10. 59 Co NMR study," Phys. Statist. Sol. (a), vol. 189, pp. 701-704, 2002.
11. C. W. Chen, Magnetism and Metallurgy of Soft Magnetic Materials. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: North-Holland, 1977, p. 320.
12. Z. Celinski, B. Heinrich, J. F. Co&an, W. B. Muir, and A. S. Arrott, "Growth and magnetic studies of lattice expanded Pd in ultrathin Fe(001)/Pd(001)/Fe(001) structures," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 65, pp. 1156-1159, 1990.
13. F. J. A. den Broeder, H. C. Donkersloot, H. J. G. Draaisma, and W. J. M. den Jonge, "Magnetic properties and structure of Pd/Co and Pd/Fe multilayers," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 61, pp. 4317-4319, 1987.
14. 3 interfaces using copper-doped aluminum superconducting films," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 77, pp. 720-722, 2000.
15. R. J. Soulen Jr. et al., "Measuring the spin polarization of a metal with a superconducting point contact," Science, vol. 282, pp. 85-88, 1998.
16. A. Oswald, R. Zeller, and P. H. Dederichs, "Giant moments in palladium," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 56, pp. 1419-1422, 1986.
17. G. J. Nieuwenhuys, "Magnetic behaviour of cobalt, iron and manganese dissolved in palladium," Adv. Phys., vol. 24, pp. 515-591, 1975.