Interfacial oxidation enhanced perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in low resistance magnetic tunnel junctions composed of Co/Pt multilayer electrodes

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2577-2580

  Park, Jeong Heon ^a   Park, Chando ^b   Zhu, Jian Gang ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic tunnel junction; Magnetoresistance; Natural oxidation; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249167359     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2003071     Document Type: Article

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