Spin-valve effects in point contacts to exchange biased Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ films

Nonlinear current-voltage characteristics and magnetoresistance of point contacts between a normal metal (N) and films of amorphous ferromagnet (F) Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ of different thickness, exchange-biased by antiferromagnetic Mn8₀Ir₂₀ are studied. A surface spin valve effect in the conductance of such...

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Nonlinear current-voltage characteristics and magnetoresistance of point contacts between a normal metal (N) and films of amorphous ferromagnet (F) Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ of different thickness, exchange-biased by antiferromagnetic Mn8₀Ir₂₀ are studied. A surface spin valve effect in the conductance of such F–N contacts is observed. The effect of exchange bias is found to be inversely proportional to the Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ film thickness. This behavior as well as other magneto-transport effects we observe on single exchange-pinned ferromagnetic films are similar in nature to those found in conventional three-layer spin-valves.
Funding by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine under project 26/14-Н (NANO) is gratefully acknowledged.
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Фізико-технічний інститут низьких температур ім. Б.І. Вєркіна НАН України
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III Международный семинар по микроконтактной спектроскопии
Spin-valve effects in point contacts to exchange biased Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ films
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title Spin-valve effects in point contacts to exchange biased Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ films
spellingShingle Spin-valve effects in point contacts to exchange biased Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ films
Balkashin, O.P.
Fisun, V.V.
Triputen, L.Yu.
Andersson, S.
Korenivsk, V.
Naidyuk, Yu.G.
III Международный семинар по микроконтактной спектроскопии
title_short Spin-valve effects in point contacts to exchange biased Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ films
title_full Spin-valve effects in point contacts to exchange biased Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ films
title_fullStr Spin-valve effects in point contacts to exchange biased Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ films
title_full_unstemmed Spin-valve effects in point contacts to exchange biased Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ films
title_sort spin-valve effects in point contacts to exchange biased сo₄₀fe₄₀b₂₀ films
author Balkashin, O.P.
Fisun, V.V.
Triputen, L.Yu.
Andersson, S.
Korenivsk, V.
Naidyuk, Yu.G.
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Fisun, V.V.
Triputen, L.Yu.
Andersson, S.
Korenivsk, V.
Naidyuk, Yu.G.
topic III Международный семинар по микроконтактной спектроскопии
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description Nonlinear current-voltage characteristics and magnetoresistance of point contacts between a normal metal (N) and films of amorphous ferromagnet (F) Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ of different thickness, exchange-biased by antiferromagnetic Mn8₀Ir₂₀ are studied. A surface spin valve effect in the conductance of such F–N contacts is observed. The effect of exchange bias is found to be inversely proportional to the Сo₄₀Fe₄₀B₂₀ film thickness. This behavior as well as other magneto-transport effects we observe on single exchange-pinned ferromagnetic films are similar in nature to those found in conventional three-layer spin-valves.
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fulltext Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2014, v. 40, No. 10, pp. 1170–1174 Spin-valve effects in point contacts to exchange biased Сo40Fe40B20 films O.P. Balkashin1, V.V. Fisun1, L.Yu. Triputen1, S. Andersson2, V. Korenivski2, and Yu.G. Naidyuk1 1B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 47 Lenin Ave., Kharkov 61103, Ukraine E-mail: Balkashin@ilt.kharkov.ua 2Nanostructure Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE-10691, Sweden Received June 2, 2014, published online August 21, 2014 Nonlinear current-voltage characteristics and magnetoresistance of point contacts between a normal metal (N) and films of amorphous ferromagnet (F) Сo40Fe40B20 of different thickness, exchange-biased by antiferromag- netic Mn80Ir20 are studied. A surface spin valve effect in the conductance of such F–N contacts is observed. The effect of exchange bias is found to be inversely proportional to the Сo40Fe40B20 film thickness. This behavior as well as other magneto-transport effects we observe on single exchange-pinned ferromagnetic films are similar in nature to those found in conventional three-layer spin-valves. PACS: 72.25.–b Spin polarized transport; 76.40.Jn Metal-to-metal contacts; 75.75.–c Magnetic properties of nanostructures. Keywords: point contacts, spin valve, spin transfer torque, exchange bias, CoFeB. Interest in the study of layered systems ferromagnet/an- tiferomagnet (F/AF) is due to some open fundamental questions as to the mechanisms of exchange bias as well as applications of such structures in spintronic devices [1] ex- ploiting the giant magnetoresistance effect [2]. Exchange bias was first discovered in microparticles of cobalt oxide CoO [3], manifested as a field-shift of the hysteresis loop with respect to H = 0. Nowadays, this effect is widely used for pinning the magnetization of one of the layers of a spin valve (SV) [4], which typically consists of two ferromag- netic films separated by a normal metal, F1/N/F2. In the antiparallel configuration of the magnetization of the F1,2 layers, the resistance of the SV is high, and is lowered on switching into the parallel configuration. This change in the resistance in response to an external field gives the SV its key functionality as a field sensor. For pinning the di- rection of the magnetization of the ferromagnetic layer the following procedure is used: at a temperature above the Neel temperature TN of the antiferromagnet, but below the Curie temperature TC of the ferromagnet, the AF is mag- netically disordered while F is magnetically ordered. As the temperature is decreased below TN, with a suitably high magnetic field applied to the sample (to achieve saturation of F), the AF becomes magnetically ordered, with its inter- face spins aligned by the ferromagnet. This preferred spin direction in the AF, induced by the field-cooling, acts as magnetic bias when the F-magnetization is switched by a reversing magnetic field. The AF-bias results in a shift of the hysteresis loop of F proportional to the interfacial ex- change force, with its quantifying parameter, the so-called exchange-bias field Нex, defined as eх ( ) / 2L RH H H= − + . (1) Here HL и HR are the magnetic field values at which the magnetization reversal in F occurs. The growing interest in magnetic nanostructures based on multicomponent amorphous alloys is due to the fact that the realization of the effect of spin transfer torque in such systems [5] requires smaller switching currents as compar- ed with single-element ferromagnets [6]. In this regard, amorphous alloy CoFeB is a promising candidate for ap- plications in devices based on the giant magnetoresistance effect due to its high electrical resistance and low magnetic anisotropy [7,8], which are beneficial to functional para- meters of spintronic nanostructures. In particular, a tunnel junction CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB with epitaxial films of mag- © O.P. Balkashin, V.V. Fisun, L.Yu. Triputen, S. Andersson, V. Korenivski, and Yu.G. Naidyuk, 2014 mailto:Balkashin@ilt.kharkov.ua Spin-valve effects in point contacts to exchange biased Сo40Fe40B20 films nesium oxide has been demonstrated to have giant (up to one thousand percent) magnetoresistance, between its par- allel and antiparallel magnetic configurations [9], which is due to a nearly full spin asymmetry of the electron trans- port through the CoFeB/MgO interface. The key magnetic properties for a variety of spintronic devices are the coercive field of the magnetic material, its saturation magnetization, weak magnetostriction, all pre- sent in CoFeB, which is why the material is widely used in research and industrial applications. The alloy is amor- phous and therefore can optimally grow on almost any substrate, avoiding lattice mismatch between the under- and over-layers and minimizing other defects in the stack. In our papers [10–13] it was shown that in nonmagnet- ic-ferromagnetic single-interface tip-surface point contacts, with the ferromagnet being polycrystalline Co, the magne- to-transport exhibits many of the characteristic of tradi- tional pillar-like F1/N/F2 spin-valves (with two magnetic interfaces, having parallel and antiparallel spin configura- tion). Our analysis of the experiments resulted in a spin- transport model for a single F/N interface in the point con- tact region [11,13]. The model proposes that an atomically thin surface layer of spins in cobalt is magnetically rotated with respect to the spins in the bulk, forming an atomically thin domain wall. It is well known that in narrow contacts between two ferromagnetic electrodes, the width of a mag- netic domain wall can be sufficiently small, commensurate with the size of the narrowing [14]. Such a thin domain wall allows to have orientation of the surface layer magnet- ization different from the bulk. As a result, in a simple po- int contact, with a single ferromagnetic film, two magnetic subsystem are realized — the bulk of the film and its sur- face layer with different anisotropy and coercivity values, forming a spatial structure of a “surface spin-valve” [11]. In [12], analyzing the dependence of the magnetoresis- tance of the surface SV based on an exchange biased Co/FeMn film, we found that the exchange bias shifts not only the inner transitions of the magnetoresistance loop, corresponding to the magnetization reversal of the bulk of the Co film, but also the external transitions coming from the reversal of the surface layer. Thus, despite the weak coupling between the surface layer and the bulk of the film, the coupling is sufficient to offset the switching of the sur- face layer. The aim of this work was to determine the effect of the thickness of the ferromagnetic layer on the magnitude of the exchange bias acting on the bulk of the film and the surface layer, using point contacts based on amorphous Co40Fe40B20. It is known from the literature [15,16] that increasing the thickness of the ferromagnetic film should result in diminishing the effect of the exchange bias, func- tionally according to ~1/t, where t is the thickness of the ferromagnet. For this study AF/F exchange biased bilayers were used, with AF being Mn80Ir20 and F is Co40Fe40B20. The ex- change bias was set in the standard way: by slowly cool- ing the sample in a magnetic field of 350 Oe, from tempe- rature higher than the blocking temperature of the AF (Tb ~ 513 K for Mn80Ir20) to room temperature. The studied samples were multilayer films deposited on oxidized Si substrates and schematically are shown in Fig. 1. A seed layer of Ta was first deposited on to the sub- strate, followed by copper and antiferromagnetic Mn80Ir20, for exchange-biasing the Co40Fe40B20 overlayer. The struc- ture was capped with a 3 nm thick copper layer to protect the ferromagnet against oxidation. All layers were deposit- ed in-situ, without breaking the vacuum, for ensuring high- quality interfaces. The tip was made out of a thin copper wire, sharpened into to a needle, first mechanically, then by chemical etching in HNO3. The measurements of the differential resistance dV/dI(V) of the point contacts as a function of the applied voltage bias were made using the traditional method of synchronous detection of the amplitude of a modulated ac-signal. The resis- tance of the studied point contacts was in the range 7–30 Ω, and their radii, estimated using Maxwell's formula [17], were 35–10 nm. This estimate used the typical value of the resistivity of Co78Fe11B11 of 100 μΩ·cm [18]. External magnetic field was applied parallel to the film plane. All measurements were made at 4.2 K. Figure 2 shows the dependence of the differential re- sistance dV/dI(V) in a magnetic field, where a peak is seen at the negative bias polarity. The peak position shifts to- ward higher currents with increasing magnetic field. A si- milar effect, the “dynamic SV effect”, was observed in point contacts based on cobalt [10,19], and was attributed to the excitation of a stationary precession of the magneti- zation vector due to a transfer of the spin angular momen- tum of the transport electrons to the angular momentum of the ferromagnetic lattice. Thus, the dynamic SV effect is also present in amorphous magnetic films, in our case Fig. 1. (Color online) Schematic of a tip-surface N/F/AF point con- tact. The layer thicknesses are shown in parentheses in nanometers. Cu needle Cu(3) Co Fe B ( )40 40 20 t Mn Ir (10)80 20 Cu(100) Та(5) Substrate Cap Multilayer AF+F Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2014, v. 40, No. 10 1171 O.P. Balkashin, V.V. Fisun, L.Yu. Triputen, S. Andersson, V. Korenivski, and Yu.G. Naidyuk Co40Fe40B20. Notice that coefficient k (see inset in Fig. 2) has the value corresponding to the lower bound for the same coefficient measured on crystalline cobalt point con- tacts [19]. Hence we can conclude that the excitation of the single-interface SV effects in Co40Fe40B20 requires lower driving current densities than in the case of pure cobalt. Figure 3 shows the dependence of dV/dI(V) and magne- toresistance dV/I(V = 0,H) of point contacts to Co40Fe40B20 films of various thickness (20, 9, 6, 3 nm). It is known for SV [5] that sweeping the magnetic field results in magne- toresistance that has the form of two rectangle-like mean- ders or loops. Figures 3(b),(d),(f),(h) show our measured magnetoresistance as two such loops, most clearly seen for the CoFeB film thickness of 20 nm. The switching ob- served in the magnetoresistance loop is between two stable spin configurations in the point contact core, and by analo- gy with traditional three-layer SV, between the parallel and antiparallel states of the single-interface spin valve in our case. Comparing the dV/dI of Figs. 3(a) and 3(b), where a clear rectangle-shaped hysteresis is observed, one can no- tice that the magnitude of the resistance change in dV/dI(V) and dV/dI(H) is essentially the same. This indicates that the effect of the electron spin-transfer torque and the effect of the magnetic field is on the same magnetic system, in the core of the point contact as that is what determines the measured resistance. The lack of apparent hysteresis in the dV/dI(V) for smaller thicknesses (t = 3, 6, 9 nm) may be due to different values of the exchange-pinning strength at the surface lay- er (switching layer). For example, the curve in Fig. 3(g) does show hysteresis with, however, significantly washed out transitions between the low- and high-resistance states. It is possible that in this particular case, the coercivity of the magnetic surface layer is large such that the spin trans- fer from the electron current is not sufficient for reversing the layer’s magnetization. Additional to the washed out switching in thinner films, the corresponding change in the resistance is about 0.1%, which is several times smaller than that for 20 nm. The rather sharp peaks of the respec- tive R-H curves are similar to the dependence characteristic of anisotropic magnetoresistance. Indeed, as shown in [20], the anisotropic magnetoresistance has a typical value of 0.15% for the composition Co73.8Fe16.2B10. It is therefore possible that our thinner films exhibit predominantly aniso- tropic magnetoresistance. It may be informative to note that for the thinner films the typical point contact size ex- ceeds the film thickness, so the ferromagnet occupies a smaller portion of the contact core and may contribute less to the measured resistance. Figure 4 shows the dependence of the exchange bias field, calculated using equation (1) for several contacts, versus the inverse of the thickness of Co40Fe40B20. The values of the characteristic fields of the magnetization re- versal, HB (for bulk) and HS (surface) are determined from the R-H curves as positions of the switching boundaries (inner and outer) on the H-axis (Figs. 3(b),(d),(f),(h), for both directions of the field. As can be seen from Fig. 4, with decreasing thickness of the ferromagnet, the exchange field increases. This is consistent with the literature data [15,16] and is due to the fact that the thinner ferromagnet is more strongly “pinned” by the antiferromagnet and, as a consequence, it requires larger values of the applied field for the magnetization re- versal. In addition, the field strength must be sufficient to Fig. 2. (Color online) Spin-transfer peak in dV/dI(I) for a typical point contact of Сo40Fe40B20 (t = 20 nm)–Cu, for applied mag- netic field in the range 0 to 3.5 T. The negative bias corresponds to the current direction flow from the film into the tip (electrons from the tip into the magnetic film). The inset shows the peak position as a function of the magnetic field magnitude. –4 –2 0 2 18.0 18.4 18.8 19.2 0 1 2 3 4–2 –1 dV /d I, Ω 0 3.5 T H T, I, m A I, mA = –1– I kH = 0.26 mA/Tk Fig. 3. (Color online) dV/dI(V) and the corresponding magnetoresist- ance dV/dI(H) for contacts Сo40Fe40B20 (t)–Cu (t = 3, 6, 9, 20 nm). Arrows indicate the direction of the respective sweep, from left to right and from right to left. Text legends show the film thickness, t, value of the radii of the contacts, r, estimated using the Max- well formula [16], and the scale of the magnetoresistance in %. 8.60 8.65 11.56 11.58 18.89 18.90 –0.4 –0.2 0 0.2 0.4 18.66 18.69 8.7 9.0 19.5 21.0 11.6 12.0 –80 –40 0 40 80 19 20 0.4% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% (d) 3 nm 6 nm 9 nm 20 nm (a) 0.4% (f) (h) r = 15 nm r = 22 nm r = 15 nm (b)t = 20 nm r = 30 nm ( )с t = 9 nm (e) t = 6 nm (g) t = 3 nm Voltage, mV Field, T dV /d I, Ω dV /d I, Ω 1172 Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2014, v. 40, No. 10 Spin-valve effects in point contacts to exchange biased Сo40Fe40B20 films overcome the self-pinning by the surface mentioned above. It was also found that the surface layer also is affected by the exchange bias, because the outer switching field is asymmetric with respect to H = 0. Apparently, the magnet- ic subsystem of the film and the surface layer have a mag- netic coupling. Similar field offsets were observed for ex- change-biased films of polycrystalline cobalt [12]. In some cases, dV/dI(H) showed inverse magnetoresis- tance (high resistance at high field), illustrated in Fig. 5, in contrast to the more common positive MR (low resistance at high field). Figure 6 shows schematically a transport model for anisotropic magnetoresistance, where MR inver- sion is possible if the current is predominantly in the plane of the film. We also note that a qualitatively similar picture arises in the case of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, i.e., when the favored direction of the magnetization in the ferromagnetic film is orthogonal to its plane. Perpen- dicular magnetic anisotropy is usually characteristic of very thin ferromagnetic films due to the effect of the interfaces, however, in [21] it has been observed in Сo40Fe40B20 films with thicknesses up to 172 nm. This was attributed to the presence of special (300) texture in the film. In our case, the cause of the perpendicular anisotropy can poten- tially be the mechanical stress produced by the tip in the point contact core region [23]. Thus, the observed inver- sion of the magnetoresistance can be due to a significant in-plane current flow and/or perpendicular magnetic aniso- tropy in the contact region. It may be informative to men- tion that no MR inversion was observed in point contacts to exchange-biased cobalt films, Со/Fe50Mn50 [12]. One more potential reason for the inversed MR may be a change of the sign of the spin asymmetry coefficient β of the cur- rent from positive to negative, which is observed for Cr, V, or Mn impurities in ferromagnets (see Table 1 and Fig. 10 of [23]). In our case, the latter is possible due to the pres- ence of a Mn-rich layer in the stack. Conclusion We have studied the differential resistance dV/dI(V) and magnetoresistance dV/dI (H, V = 0) of point contacts based on films of amorphous ferromagnetic Сo40Fe40B20 of dif- ferent thickness, exchange-biased by antiferromagnetic Mn80Ir20. We have observed a single-interface spin-valve Fig. 4. (Color online) Exchange-bias field Hex for Сo40Fe40B20/Mn80Ir20 versus the thickness of the ferromagnetic film: circles correspond to the surface layer of the film, triangles – to the bulk of the film. Straight lines: linear fits to the corre- sponding data points. 0 1 2 3 4 20 40 60 80 surface bulk H ex , m T 10/ , nm t –1 Fig. 5. dV/dI(V) and the corresponding magnetoresistance dV/dI(H) for two contacts Сo40Fe40B20 (t)–Cu (t = 9, 20 nm), exhibiting inverse magnetoresistance. The scale in percent near dV/dI(H) shows the magnitude of the MR. –0.1 0 0.1 24.35 24.40 –50 0 5024 26 28 14.08 14.10 14.12 14 15 Field, T 20 nm 9 nm9 nm Voltage, mV 0.15% 0.2% (c) (d) (b)20 nm (a) dV /d I, Ω dV /d I, Ω dV /d I, Ω dV /d I, Ω Fig. 6. Schematic of a N/F tip-surface point contact. The ferro- magnetic film is shown as a gray rectangle. Bold arrows show the direction of the magnetization M, and the dashed arrows repre- sent the current flow lines in the contact. It is known that aniso- tropic magnetoresistance is smaller when the current flows per- pendicular to M [22]. Two graphs in the middle illustrate the an- isotropic magnetoresistance behavior with increasing magnetic field: (a) and (b) is the case of the current flow predominantly perpendicular to the film plane, and (c) and (d) is the case of the dominating contribution from the current component in the film plane. 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