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面内电流对具有绝缘反铁磁层的交换偏置自旋阀磁阻特性的影响

Impact of in-plane currents on magnetoresistance properties of an exchange-biased spin-valve with insulating antiferromagnetic layer

D. N. H. Nam, N. C. Thuan, L. V. Hong, N. X. Phuc, S. A. Wolf, N. V. Dai, Y. P. Lee

摘要:

研究了面内交变电流对CoFe/NiCoO/CoFe/Cu/CoFe自旋阀的交换偏置、电阻和磁阻的影响。随着电流的增加,电阻增加,而最大磁阻比减小。值得注意的是,钉扎层的反转在两个场扫描方向上都被系统地抑制。由于NiCoO氧化物是良好的绝缘体,预期交流电流仅在CoFe/Cu/CoFe顶层中流动,因此排除了作用于反铁磁层中自旋的任何自旋转移力矩的存在。相反,我们的测量显示了电流引起的焦耳加热的影响的明确证据。此外,从温度相关的测量结果非常相似的电流依赖性,表明焦耳加热的效果在电流平面自旋阀配置中起着重要作用。结果还表明,铁磁层之间的自旋转移力矩可能仍然存在,并在足够高的电流与交换偏置竞争。

英文摘要:

The impact of in-plane alternating currents on the exchange bias, resistance, and magnetoresistance of a CoFe/NiCoO/CoFe/Cu/CoFe spin-valve is studied. With increasing current, the resistance is increased while the maximum magnetoresistance ratio decreases. Noticeably, the reversal of the pinned layer is systematically suppressed in both field sweeping directions. Since the NiCoO oxide is a good insulator, it is expected that the ac current flows only in the CoFe/Cu/CoFe top layers, thus ruling out any presence of spin-transfer torque acting on the spins in the antiferromagnetic layer. Instead, our measurements show clear evidences for the influence of Joule heating caused by the current. Moreover, results from temperature-dependent measurements very much resemble those of the current dependence, indicating that the effect of Joule heating plays a major role in the current-in-plane spin-valve configurations. The results also suggest that spin-transfer torques between ferromagnetic layers might still exist and compete with the exchange bias at sufficiently high currents.

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