Thermal stability and spin-transfer switchings in MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions with ferromagnetically and antiferromagnetically coupled synthetic free layers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Yakata, Satoshi ^a   Kubota, Hitoshi ^a   Sugano, Toru ^a   Seki, Takayuki ^a   Yakushiji, Kay ^a   Fukushima, Akio ^a   Yuasa, Shinji ^a   Ando, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERRO-MAGNETICALLY COUPLED; FREE LAYERS; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; MEMORY APPLICATIONS; SPIN TRANSFER; SWITCHING CURRENT DENSITY; THERMAL STABILITY;

COBALT COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 77952811411     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3275753     Document Type: Article

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