Enhanced thermal stability in perpendicular top-pinned magnetic tunnel junction with synthetic antiferromagnetic free layers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4363-4366

  Yoshida, Chikako ^a   Takenaga, Takashi ^a   Iba, Yoshihisa ^a   Yamazaki, Yuichi ^a   Noshiro, Hideki ^a   Tsunoda, Koji ^a   Hatada, Akiyoshi ^a   Nakabayashi, Masaaki ^a   Takahashi, Atsushi ^a   Aoki, Masaki ^a   Sugii, Toshihiro ^a  

^a Low power Electronics Association and Project LEAP   (Japan)

Author keywords

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; synthetic antiferromagnetic free layer; thermal fluctuation; top pinned magnetic tunnel junction

Indexed keywords

FREE LAYERS; INTERLAYER EXCHANGE COUPLING; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; SWITCHING CURRENTS; SYNTHETIC ANTI-FERROMAGNETIC FREE LAYERS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

COBALT COMPOUNDS; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

MAGNETIC DEVICES;

EID: 84880771598     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2013.2248350     Document Type: Article

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