期刊
ADVANCED QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES
卷 3, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/qute.202000024
关键词
SOT-MRAM; spin Hall effect; spin-orbit torques; spintronics
A magnetic heterostructure with good thermal stability, large damping-like spin-obit torque (DL-SOT), and low power consumption is crucial to realize thermally stable, fast, and efficient magnetization manipulation in SOT devices. This work systematically investigates on PtxCu1-x/Co/MgO magnetic heterostructures with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), and reports a promising spin Hall material, Pt-Cu alloy, possessing large DL-SOT efficiency and moderate resistivity. The optimal Pt(0.57)Cu(0.43)has a large DL-SOT efficiency of about 0.44, as determined by hysteresis loop shift measurements, with a relatively low resistivity (82.5 mu omega cm at 5 nm thickness). Moreover, this large DL-SOT efficiency and the coercivity reduction accompanying with proper alloying contribute to a low critical switching current density (2.37 x 10(6)A cm(-2)in the Pt(0.57)Cu(0.43)layer) in current-induced magnetization switching measurements. Finally, the thermal stability of the Co layer can be preserved under alloying, whereas the switching power consumption can be significantly reduced, being the best performance among reported Pt-based spin current sources. This systematic study on SOT switching properties suggests that Pt(0.57)Cu(0.43)is an attractive spin current source with moderate resistivity, large DL-SOT efficiency, good thermal stability, and low power consumption for future SOT applications.
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