Magnetic tunnel junctions with high magnetoresistance and small bias voltage dependence using epitaxial NiFe„111... ferromagnetic bottom electrodes

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  • Ji Hyung Yu
  • Hyuck Mo Lee
  • Masamitsu Hayashi
  • Mikihiko Oogane
  • Tadaomi Daibou
  • Hiroaki Nakamura
  • Hitoshi Kubota
  • Yasuo Ando
  • Terunobu Miyazaki
چکیده

Magnetic tunnel junctions ~MTJs! were fabricated using an Al–O insulating layer prepared on an epitaxially grown Ni80Fe20 bottom electrode and on a polycrystalline Ni80Fe20 bottom electrode. Crystallographic orientations and surface morphology of the films were examined using x-ray diffraction and atomic force microscopy, respectively. The MTJ with an epitaxial bottom electrode showed a tunnel magnetoresistance ~TMR! ratio of 51% after annealing at 250 °C. This value was about two times larger than that of the MTJ with a polycrystalline bottom electrode ~27%!. The applied bias voltage dependences of the TMR ratios were also much different. The Vhalf values of epitaxial and polycrystalline samples were about 750 and 400 mV, respectively. © 2003 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1544458#

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تاریخ انتشار 2003