Antiferromagnetic coupling in sputtered mgo tunnel junctions with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3472-3475

  Nistor, Lavinia E ^a   Rodmacq, Bernard ^a   Auffret, Stéphane ^a   Schuhl, Alain ^a   Dieny, Bernard ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

Antiferromagnetic coupling; Magnetic tunnel junctions; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; Thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROELECTRICITY; ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; ELECTRODES; MAGNESIA; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; OXIDE MINERALS;

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; ANTIFERROMAGNETIC COUPLING; ELECTRODE THICKNESS; FERROMAGNETIC COUPLING; MAGNETIC ELECTRODES; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 70350610800     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2025519     Document Type: Article

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