Observation of boron diffusion in an annealed Ta/CoFeB/MgO magnetic tunnel junction with standing-wave hard x-ray photoemission

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Greer, A A ^a,b,c   Gray, A X ^a,c,d   Kanai, S ^e   Kaiser, A M ^a,c,f   Ueda, S ^g   Yamashita, Y ^g   Bordel, C ^h,i   Palsson, G ^a,c   Maejima, N ^j   Yang, S H ^k   Conti, G ^a,c   Kobayashi, K ^g   Ikeda, S ^e   Matsukura, F ^e   Ohno, H ^e   Schneider, C M ^f   Kortright, J B ^c   Hellman, F ^c,h   Fadley, C S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^j NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^k IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON DIFFUSIONS; DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; HARD X-RAY PHOTOEMISSION; HARD X-RAY PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACE LAYER; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING; MGO; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIZATION; ROCKING CURVES; SPIN TORQUE; SPINTRONIC STRUCTURES;

DIGITAL STORAGE; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIZATION; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

ANNEALING;

EID: 84870013045     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4766351     Document Type: Article

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