ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

PNR determination of magnetic structure in Co/Pd perpendicular exchange spring thin films

Abstract: Atomic interface engineering has allowed magnetic exchange spring multilayers to be created which are both stable against thermally activated magnetisation reversal, and can be switched using the moderate fields/currents available in technologically realisable devices. These requirements are key to the creation of new forms of spintronic memory with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy including STT-MRAM (recently commercialized by Samsung and others) and the rapidly developing SOT-MRAM. Here we propose to address two outstanding scientific questions associated with this class of materials ? (i) that of understanding the effect of high temperature annealing (where literature is extremely sparse) which is essential for chip integration processing (>300°C) and (ii) to determine the magnet exchange spring interaction created by combining Co/Pd multilayers with high/low magnetic anisotropy.

Principal Investigator: Professor Thomas Thomson
Experimenter: Mr Philip Thompson
Local Contact: Dr Christy Kinane
Experimenter: Dr William Griggs

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB2010227

ISIS Experiment Number: RB2010227

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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