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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 100, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3701585
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- European Commission through the Adv ERC HYMAGINE
- ANR-10-NANO PATHOS
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We demonstrate that the effective magnetic anisotropy of sputtered (Co/Pt) multilayers can be doubled by limiting the interdiffusion occurring at Co/Pt interfaces. We present a way to decrease the interdiffusion by inserting an ultra-thin Cu layer at or near the Co/Pt interfaces. When such a material is sputtered on Co prior to the Pt deposition, the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, as well as the thermal stability, is enhanced for Co layer thicknesses smaller than 1 nm. This is of great interest for out-of-plane magnetized spintronic devices which require high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for down-size scalability reasons together with a free layer as thin as possible to reduce the writing energy when switched by spin transfer torque. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3701585]
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