Dependency of anti-ferro-magnetic coupling strength on Ru spacer thickness of [Co/Pd](n)-synthetic-anti-ferro-magnetic layer in perpendicular magnetic-tunnel-junctions fabricated on 12-inch TiN electrode wafer
- Authors
- Chae, Kyo-Suk; Shim, Tae-Hun; Park, Jea-Gun
- Issue Date
- Jul-2014
- Publisher
- AMER INST PHYSICS
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, v.116, no.3, pp.1 - 5
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- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
- Volume
- 116
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 5
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/159624
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.4887352
- ISSN
- 0021-8979
- Abstract
- We investigated the Ru spacer-thickness effect on the anti-ferro-magnetic coupling strength (J(ex)) of a [Co/Pd](n)-synthetic-anti-ferro-magnetic layer fabricated with Co2Fe6B2/MgO based perpendicular-magnetic-tunneling-junction spin-valves on 12-in. TiN electrode wafers. J(ex) peaked at a certain Ru spacer-thickness: specifically, a J(ex) of 0.78 erg/cm(2) at 0.6 nm, satisfying the J(ex) criteria for realizing the mass production of terra-bit-level perpendicular-spin-transfer-torque magnetic-random-access-memory. Otherwise, J(ex) rapidly degraded when the Ru spacer-thickness was less than or higher than 0.6 nm. As a result, the allowable Ru thickness variation should be controlled less than 0.12 nm to satisfy the J(ex) criteria. However, the Ru spacer-thickness did not influence the tunneling-magneto-resistance (TMR) and resistance-area (RA) of the perpendicular-magnetic-tunneling-junction (p-MTJ) spin-valves since the Ru spacer in the synthetic-anti-ferro-magnetic layer mainly affects the anti-ferro-magnetic coupling efficiency rather than the crystalline linearity of the Co2Fe6B2 free layer/MgO tunneling barrier/Co2Fe6B2 pinned layer, although Co2Fe6B2/MgO based p-MTJ spin-valves ex-situ annealed at 275 degrees C achieved a TMR of similar to 70% at a RA of similar to 20 Omega mu m(2).
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