Perpendicular-anisotropy CoFeB-MgO magnetic tunnel junctions with a MgO/CoFeB/Ta/CoFeB/MgO recording structure

H. Sato; M. Yamanouchi; S. Ikeda; S. Fukami; F. Matsukura; H. Ohno

doi:10.1063/1.4736727

Perpendicular-anisotropy CoFeB-MgO magnetic tunnel junctions with a MgO/CoFeB/Ta/CoFeB/MgO recording structure

H. Sato, M. Yamanouchi, S. Ikeda, S. Fukami, F. Matsukura, H. Ohno

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We investigated perpendicular CoFeB-MgO magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with a recording structure consisting of two CoFeB-MgO interfaces, MgO/CoFeB (1.6 nm)/Ta (0.4 nm)/CoFeB (1.0 nm)/MgO. Thermal stability factor of MTJ with the structure having junction size of 70 nm was increased by a factor of 1.9 from the highest value of perpendicular MTJs with single CoFeB-MgO interface having the same device structure. On the other hand, intrinsic critical current for spin transfer torque switching of the double- and single-interface MTJs was comparable.

Original language	English
Article number	022414
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	101
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4736727
Publication status	Published - 2012 Jul 9

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