https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e20020110
Magnetic-roughness-induced magnetostatic interactions in magnetic tunnel junctions
1
Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux, BP 239, 54506 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
2
Institut de Physique et de Chimie des Matériaux de
Strasbourg ( UMR CNRS 7504) , 23 rue du Loess, 67037 Strasbourg
Cedex, France
Corresponding author: a hehn@lpm.u-nancy.fr
Received:
7
December
2001
Published online: 15 April 2002
Magnetostatic ferromagnetic coupling in magnetic tunnel junctions was selectively analyzed. We have shown that in samples involving polycrystalline magnetic films, beyond the orange-peel coupling, an important class of interaction is related to the dispersion fields associated to magnetic inhomogeneities. These magnetization fluctuations were described in terms of magnetic roughness arising from the local anisotropy fluctuations. Therefore, using roughness data extracted from atomic/ magnetic force microscopy analysis, the amplitude and the variation with distance of the magnetostatic interactions were selectively quantified.
PACS: 75.60.-d – Domain effects, magnetization curves, and hysteresis / 73.43.Jn – Tunneling / 73.40.Rw – Metal-insulator-metal structures
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2002
