Low magnetic damping in an ultrathin CoFeB layer deposited on a 300 mm diameter wafer at cryogenic temperature. (1st February 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sugihara, Atsushi; Ichinose, Tomohiro; Tamaru, Shingo; Yamamoto, Tatsuya; Konoto, Makoto; Nozaki, Takayuki; Yuasa, Shinji
• Is Part Of: Applied physics express. Volume 16:Number 2(2023)
• Publication Date: 2023-02-01
• Subjects: magnetic tunnel junction -- ferromagnetic resonance -- magnesium oxide -- CoFeB -- magnetic damping; Physics -- Periodicals; Technology -- Periodicals; 621.05
• DOI: 10.35848/1882-0786/acbae1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1882-0778

Abstract

Abstract: We deposited an ultrathin CoFeB(1.1 nm) layer, which functions as a storage layer of MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions for spin-transfer-torque (STT) magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM), on ϕ 300 mm wafers at 100 K and investigated its effect on the magnetization dynamics of CoFeB. We observed clear reductions in both the inhomogeneous linewidth and total magnetic damping parameter for the CoFeB layer deposited at 100 K compared to those deposited at 300 K through the improvement in the interfacial quality. The results show that deposition at cryogenic temperatures is an effective manufacturing process for high-quality magnetic thin films with low magnetic damping.