Title :
Thermal and Mn diffusion behaviors of CoNbZr based spin valves with nano-oxide layers
Author :
Jong Soo Kim ; Young Keun Kim ; Seong-Rae Lee
Author_Institution :
Div. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea
fDate :
March 30 2003-April 3 2003
Abstract :
In this paper, we investigated specularity and thermal characteristics of the CoNbZr based spinvalves with and without employing nano-oxide layers (NOL). In addition we attempted to explain Mn diffusion behaviors with respect to the difference in oxygen potentials.
Keywords :
chemical interdiffusion; cobalt alloys; ferromagnetic materials; manganese; nanostructured materials; niobium alloys; spin valves; thermal diffusion; zirconium alloys; CoNbZr:Mn; Mn diffusion; nanooxide layers; oxygen potential; spin valves; thermal diffusion; Annealing; Chemicals; Electrons; FCC; Magnetic analysis; Oxidation; Spectroscopy; Spin valves; Sputtering; Thermal stability;
Conference_Titel :
Magnetics Conference, 2003. INTERMAG 2003. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7647-1
DOI :
10.1109/INTMAG.2003.1230765
