Metastable body-centered cubic CoMnFe alloy films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for spintronics memory.

IF 7.4 3区 材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Science and Technology of Advanced Materials Pub Date : 2024-11-13 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1080/14686996.2024.2421746
Deepak Kumar, Mio Ishibashi, Tufan Roy, Masahito Tsujikawa, Masafumi Shirai, Shigemi Mizukami
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Abstract

A body-centered cubic (bcc) FeCo(B) is a current standard magnetic material for perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (p-MTJs) showing both large tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) and high interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) when MgO is utilized as a barrier material of p-MTJs. Since the p-MTJ is a key device of current spintronics memory, i.e. spin-transfer-torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM), it attracts attention for further advance to explore new magnetic materials showing both large PMA and TMR. However, there have been no such materials other than FeCo(B)/MgO. Here, we report, for the first time, PMA in metastable bcc Co-based alloy, i.e. bcc CoMnFe thin films which are known to exhibit large TMR effect when used for electrodes of MTJs with the MgO barrier. The largest intrinsic PMAs were about 0.6 and 0.8 MJ/m3 in a few nanometer-thick CoMnFe alloy film and multilayer film, respectively. Our ab-initio calculation suggested that PMA originates from tetragonal strain and the value exceeds 1 MJ/m3 with optimizing strain and alloys composition. The simulation of the thermal stability factor indicates that the magnetic properties obtained satisfy the requirement of the data retention performance of X-1X nm STT-MRAM. The large PMA and high TMR effect in bcc CoMnFe/MgO, which were rarely observed in materials other than FeCo(B)/MgO, indicate that bcc CoMnFe/MgO is one of the potential candidates of the materials for X-1X nm STT-MRAM.

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Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Science and Technology of Advanced Materials 工程技术-材料科学:综合
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10.60
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3.60%
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52
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4.8 months
期刊介绍: Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) is a leading open access, international journal for outstanding research articles across all aspects of materials science. Our audience is the international community across the disciplines of materials science, physics, chemistry, biology as well as engineering. The journal covers a broad spectrum of topics including functional and structural materials, synthesis and processing, theoretical analyses, characterization and properties of materials. Emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary nature of materials science and issues at the forefront of the field, such as energy and environmental issues, as well as medical and bioengineering applications. Of particular interest are research papers on the following topics: Materials informatics and materials genomics Materials for 3D printing and additive manufacturing Nanostructured/nanoscale materials and nanodevices Bio-inspired, biomedical, and biological materials; nanomedicine, and novel technologies for clinical and medical applications Materials for energy and environment, next-generation photovoltaics, and green technologies Advanced structural materials, materials for extreme conditions.
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