6 research outputs found
Low frequency noise due to magnetic inhomogeneities in submicron FeCoB/MgO/FeCoB magnetic tunnel junctions
We report on room temperature low frequency noise due to magnetic
inhomogeneities/domain walls (MI/DWs) in elliptic submicron FeCoB/MgO/FeCoB
magnetic tunnel junctions with an area between 0.0245 and 0.0675{\mu}m2. In the
smaller area junctions we found an unexpected random telegraph noise (RTN1),
deeply in the parallel state, possibly due to stray field induced MI/DWs in the
hard layer. The second noise source (RTN2) is observed in the antiparallel
state for the largest junctions. Strong asymmetry of RTN2 and of related
resistance steps with current indicate spin torque acting on the MI/DWs in the
soft layer at current densities below 5x10^5 A/cm2.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Magnetization reversal in sub-100nm magnetic tunnel junctions with ultrathin MgO barrier biased along hard axis
We report on room temperature magnetoresistance and low frequency noise in
sub-100nm elliptic CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions with ultrathin
(0.9nm) barriers. For magnetic fields applied along the hard axis, we observe
current induced magnetization switching between the antiparallel and parallel
alignments at DC current densities as low as 4*106A/cm2. We attribute the low
value of the critical current to the influence of localized reductions in the
tunnel barrier, which affects the current distribution. The analysis of random
telegraph noise, which appears in the field interval near a magnetization
switch, provides an estimate to the dimension of the pseudo pinholes that
trigger the magnetization switching via local spin torque. Micromagnetic
simulations qualitatively and quantitatively reproduce the main experimental
observations