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

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In this article, the authors investigated a recording structure consisting of two CoFeB-MgO interfaces, MgO/CoFeB (1.6 nm)/Ta (0.4 n) with a recording size of 70 nm.
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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 nmφ 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.

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A perpendicular-anisotropy CoFeB–MgO magnetic tunnel junction

TL;DR: Inter interfacial perpendicular anisotropy between the ferromagnetic electrodes and the tunnel barrier of the MTJ is used by employing the material combination of CoFeB-MgO, a system widely adopted to produce a giant tunnel magnetoresistance ratio in MTJs with in-plane an isotropy.
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Giant room-temperature magnetoresistance in single-crystal Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions

TL;DR: A giant MR ratio up to 180% at room temperature in single-crystal Fe/MgO/Fe MTJs is reported, indicating that coherency of wave functions is conserved across the tunnel barrier.
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Giant tunnelling magnetoresistance at room temperature with MgO (100) tunnel barriers

TL;DR: Sputter-deposited polycrystalline MTJs grown on an amorphous underlayer, but with highly oriented MgO tunnel barriers and CoFe electrodes, exhibit TMR values of up to ∼220% at room temperature and ∼300% at low temperatures, which will accelerate the development of new families of spintronic devices.
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230% room temperature magnetoresistance in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions

TL;DR: The magnetoresistance ratio of 230% at room temperature is reported in spin-valve type magnetic tunnel junctions using MgO barrier layer and amorphous CoFeB ferromagnetic electrodes fabricated on thermally oxidized Si substrates.
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Systematic variation of the strength and oscillation period of indirect magnetic exchange coupling through the 3d, 4d, and 5d transition metals.

TL;DR: The exchange-coupling strength is found to increase systematically from the 5d to 4d to 3d metals and exponentially with increasing number of d electrons along each period.
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