| Issue |
EPL
Volume 78, Number 6, June 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 67002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/78/67002 | |
| Published online | 25 May 2007 | |
Strong temperature dependence of antiferromagnetic coupling in CoFeB/Ru/CoFeB
1
Siemens AG Corporate Technology - Paul-Gossen-Straße 100, 91052 Erlangen, Germany
2
University of Bielefeld, Nano Device Group - Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
3
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
Corresponding author: n.wiese@physics.gla.ac.uk
Received:
22
April
2007
Accepted:
4
May
2007
The temperature dependence of saturation and spin-flop fields for artificial ferrimagnets (AFi) based on antiparallel coupled CoFeB/Ru/CoFeB trilayers has been investigated in a temperature range between 80 K and 600 K. The results presented in this paper are relevant for magnetic devices using this system, e.g. magnetic-random access memory based on spin-flop switching. In good accordance to the theory, the saturation field 
behaves like 
with a characteristic temperature of 
. Within this model, the Fermi velocity for the Ru layer is of the order of 
, therefore, explaining the strong variation of the coupling strength with the temperature in Ru-based AFi. Furthermore, a strong uniaxial anisotropy of 
with a small angular distribution of the anisotropy axes is observed for the AFi trilayers based on amorphous CoFeB alloys.
PACS: 75.70.-i – Magnetic properties of thin films, surfaces, and interfaces / 75.50.Kj – Amorphous and quasicrystalline magnetic materials / 75.30.Gw – Magnetic anisotropy
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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