The 65h JSAP Spring Meeting, 2018

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10 Spintronics and Magnetics » 10 Spintronics and Magnetics(Poster)

[17p-P10-1~93] 10 Spintronics and Magnetics(Poster)

Sat. Mar 17, 2018 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM P10 (P)

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

[17p-P10-86] Free-layer size dependence of magnetic anisotropy in nanoscale CoFeB/MgO magnetic tunnel junctions

〇(M2)Motoya Shinozaki1, Igarashi Junta1, Sato Hideo2,3,4, Ohno Hideo1,2,3,4,5 (1.Tohoku Univ. RIEC, 2.Tohoku Univ. CSIS, 3.Tohoku Univ. CSRN, 4.Tohoku Univ. CIES, 5.Tohoku Univ.WPI-AIMR)

Keywords:Magnetic tunnel junction, process, ferromagnetic resonance

We investigate free-layer size D dependence of effective anisotropy field in nanoscale CoFeB/MgO magnetic tunnel junctions by homodyne-detected ferromagnetic resonance. The effective anisotropy field HKeff monotonically increases with decreasing D for a device with the reference-layer size much larger than the free-layer size. In contrast, HKeff does not increase in a monotonic manner for a device with the reference-layer size comparable to the free-layer size. We reveal that the difference can be explained by the variation of anisotropy field in the vicinity of the device edge.