• DocumentCode
    2049055
  • Title

    Energy barriers in magnetic random access memory elements

  • Author

    Dittrich, R. ; Schrefl, T. ; Forster, H. ; Suess, D. ; Scholz, W. ; Fidler, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Solid State Phys., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Austria
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    March 30 2003-April 3 2003
  • Abstract
    In this paper, energy barriers in magnetic random access memory elements were calculated. Three minimum energy paths for the thermal reversal of a thin NiFeCo MRAM element were found between the two stable states.
  • Keywords
    cobalt alloys; ferromagnetic materials; iron alloys; magnetic thin film devices; magnetic thin films; nickel alloys; random-access storage; NiFeCo; energy barriers; magnetic random access memory; thin NiFeCo magnetic random access memory; Energy barrier; Finite element methods; Magnetic switching; Magnetization; Magnetoelasticity; Metastasis; Micromagnetics; Physics; Random access memory; Temperature distribution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Magnetics Conference, 2003. INTERMAG 2003. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Boston, MA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7647-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/INTMAG.2003.1230563
  • Filename
    1230563