Impact of CoFeB surface roughness on reliability of MgO films in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junction

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作者：
Park, Hyeonwoo [1 ]
Teramoto, Akinobu [2 ]
Tsuchimoto, Jun-Ichi [2 ,3 ]
Hayashi, Marie [2 ,3 ]
Hashimoto, Keiichi [2 ]
Sugawa, Shigetoshi [2 ]
机构：
[1] Tohoku Univ, Grad Sch Engn, Sendai, Miyagi 9808579, Japan
[2] Tohoku Univ, New Ind Creat Hatchery Ctr, Sendai, Miyagi 9808579, Japan
[3] Canon Anelva Corp, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 2158550, Japan
来源：
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS | 2019年 / 58卷 / SI期
关键词：
LARGE MAGNETORESISTANCE; ROOM-TEMPERATURE; SENSORS;
D O I：
10.7567/1347-4065/ab1bd2
中图分类号：
O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要：
We investigated the impact of the interface roughness in W-CoFeB-MgO-CoFeB-W structures on MgO reliability using the atomic force microscopy images of a MgO underlayer surface and I-V measurements. As a result, the electric current in the MgO film increased as the MgO underlayer surface roughness increased. We assumed that this phenomenon is caused by the local electric field concentration, and verified it by comparing the two electric field concentration values simulated from the AFM images and calculated from the I-V measurements. These two electric field concentrations calculated from the different results have a strong correlation to each other. It is concluded that the current of the MgO film is increased by the large roughness between MgO and the electrodes. This causes the large current variation in memory cells in magnetic random access memory (MRAM), then it leads to a small margin in memory operation. (C) 2019 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
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