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http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JKMS.2011.21.4.121

Ferromagnetic Resonance of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with an Exchange Biased Synthetic Ferrimagnetic Reference Layer  

Yoon, Jung-Bum (Department of Physics, Inha University)
You, Chun-Yeol (Department of Physics, Inha University)
Jung, Myung-Hwa (Department of Physics, Sogang University)
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Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society / v.21, no.4, 2011 , pp. 121-126 More about this Journal
Abstract
Spin dynamics of magnetic tunnel junctions with free and fixed reference layers is investigated by ferromagnetic resonance micromagnetic simulations. First, in magnetic tunnel junctions with an exchange biased synthetic ferrimagnetic reference layer, a magnetization direction of each layer and the tunneling magnetoresistance are calculated for a DC magnetic field. To investigate the spin exciting modes in magnetic tunnel junctions, we simulate the ferromagnetic resonance frequency spectra with small RF magnetic fields. Exciting modes of the tunneling magnetoresistance calculated by an included angle between free and reference layers is interpreted from those of each layer. Spin exciting modes are different according to a signs of the DC magnetic field. In a negative magnetic field, FMR frequency spectra of free and reference layers are well elucidated by the modified Kittel's equation. However, in a positive magnetic field, there is no simple analytic solution related to FMR frequency spectra due to the coupled modes. Since ferromagnetic layers in magnetic tunnel junctions are interactive each other, careful considerations of the reference and fixed layer as well as the free layer are required for understanding on the spin dynamics of magnetic tunnel junctions with an exchange biased synthetic ferrimagnetic reference layer.
Keywords
magnetic tunnel junction; synthetic ferrimagnetic reference layer; ferromagnetic resonance;
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