Enhanced interface perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Ta|CoFeB|MgO using nitrogen doped Ta underlayers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 24, 2013, Pages

  Sinha, Jaivardhan ^a   Hayashi, Masamitsu ^a   Kellock, Andrew J ^b   Fukami, Shunsuke ^c   Yamanouchi, Michihiko ^c   Sato, Hideo ^c   Ikeda, Shoji ^c   Mitani, Seiji ^a   Yang, See Hun ^b   Parkin, Stuart S P ^b   Ohno, Hideo ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN WALL DEVICES; INTERFACE MAGNETIC ANISOTROPIES; MAGNETIC CHARACTERISTIC; MAGNETIC DEAD LAYERS; MAGNETIC HETEROSTRUCTURES; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; SPINTRONIC APPLICATIONS;

COBALT COMPOUNDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; NITROGEN; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

MAGNESIA;

EID: 84879833577     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4811269     Document Type: Article

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