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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS
卷 47, 期 10, 页码 3308-3311出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2149502
关键词
Blocking temperature distribution; exchange bias; interface; spin-glass
In exchange biased spintronic devices such as magnetic random access memories, spin-glass-like regions are randomly spread over ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic interfaces. They contribute to detrimental distributions of exchange bias properties from memory cell to memory cell. The integrated area of the low-temperature (T) contribution of the blocking temperature (T-B) distribution provides information about the amount of these spin-glass like regions. In this paper, we report on the influence of various growth conditions on the low-T contribution of the T-B distributions for cobalt/iridium-manganese (IrMn) based bilayers. Top, bottom, on-and off-axis depositions were compared. We show that off-axis deposition, i.e., when the target and substrate are off-centred, does not reduce the low-T contribution despite an expected smoother F/AF interface. We observe that bottom deposition, i.e., when IrMn is deposited first, allows reducing AF spin-glass like regions as compared to top deposition. This contributes to improved exchange bias properties.
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