Spin-valve Thermal Stability: Interdiffusion Versus Exchange Biasing
INTERMAG 2000 Digest of Technical Papers 2000 IEEE International Magnetics Conference(2005)
摘要
This paper focuses on the roles of exchange biasing and interdiffusion on the thermal stability of different spin-valve structures. The thermal stability of the exchange field was found to be an intrinsic property of the antiferromagnet structure-it is not significantly effected by roughness or the quality of crystalline texture in the spin-valve. Two routes for interdiffusion were observed: mixing at the Ta/NiFe interface and Mn interdiffusion into the pinned layer and beyond. Synthetic spin-valves showed improved thermal stability as the Ru layer acts as a barrier against Mn interdiffusion. Annealing the PtMn spin-valves significantly reduced interdiffusion, inducing a phase transition to the more stable PtMn fct state and passivating the Ta/NiFe intermixing.
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interdiffusion,recording heads,spin-valve,thermal stability
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