Magnetic and tunnel properties of epitaxial transition metal/MgO heterostructures

Author

Cebollada, A. ; Boubeta, C.M. ; Costa Kramer, J.L. ; Anguita, J.V. ; Briones, F.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Microelectron. de Madrid, IMM (CNM-CSIC), Madrid, Spain

fYear

2002

Abstract

Summary form only given. Fabrication of single crystalline metal/insulator magnetic heterostructures is of great technological interest for applications as non-volatile memories, magnetic sensors, or magnetic storage media. Besides, from the fundamental point of view, the availability of epitaxial structures allows a much simpler understanding of many physical properties compared to those of polycrystalline or amorphous systems. The current activities carried out at the IMM within this framework will be described and discussed.

Keywords

magnesium compounds; magnetic epitaxial layers; magnetic multilayers; metal-insulator boundaries; pulsed laser deposition; spin polarised transport; sputtered coatings; transition metals; tunnelling; Co; Fe; FeCo; MgO; epitaxial structures; epitaxial transition metal/MgO heterostructures; magnetic sensors; magnetic storage media; non-volatile memories; single crystalline metal/insulator magnetic heterostructures; Amorphous magnetic materials; Amorphous materials; Crystallization; Fabrication; Insulation; Magnetic memory; Magnetic properties; Magnetic sensors; Metal-insulator structures; Nonvolatile memory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Magnetics Conference, 2002. INTERMAG Europe 2002. Digest of Technical Papers. 2002 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7365-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INTMAG.2002.1001033

Filename

1001033