摘要:
A magnetoelectric composition of boron and chromia is provided. The boron and chromia alloy can contain boron doping of 1%-10% in place of the oxygen in the chromia. The boron-doped chromia exhibits an increased critical temperature while maintaining magnetoelectric characteristics. The composition can be fabricated by depositing chromia in the presence of borane. The boron substitutes oxygen in the chromia, enhancing the exchange energy and thereby increasing Néel temperature.
摘要:
A magnetic logic cell includes a first electrode portion, a magnetic portion arranged on the first electrode, the magnetic portion including an anti-ferromagnetic material or a ferrimagnetic material, a dielectric portion arranged on the magnetic portion, and a second electrode portion arranged on the dielectric portion.
摘要:
An information storage medium with an array of laterally magnetised dots, as well as a process for producing this medium. Each dot (2) contains at least one magnetic domain formed by a thin layer (4) of at least a magnetic material laterally covering this flat material and deposited at oblique incidence relative to the normal (z) to the plane (6) of the array. The invention applies in particular to computer hard drives.
摘要:
THIN FILMS OF ION-RHODIUM EXHIBITING A BROADLY HYSTERIC FIRST ORDER TRANSISTION BETWEEN THE FERROMAGNETIC AND ANTIFERROMAGNETIC STATES ARE PRODUCED BY SEQUENTIALLY DEPOSITING IRON AND RHODIUM FILMS UPON A REFRACTORY SUBSTRATE AT A PRESSURE IN THE RANGE OF 1X10**-6 TORR, ANNEALING THE STRUCTURE IN A VACUUM OF 1X10**-6 TORR AT A TEMPERATURE OF APPROXIMATELY 700* C. FOR 1 HOUR TO PRODUCE A COMPLETE DIFFUSION OF THE IRON AND RHODIUM LAYERS, AND SUBSEQUENTLY SUBJECTING THE DIFFUSED LAYERS TO A SECOND ANNEAL IN AN ATMOSPHERE GREATER THAN 10 PARTS PER MILLION OXYGEN IN A THERMAL CYCLE THAT INCLUDES SLOWLY HEATING THE STRUCTURE TO 400* C., MAINTAINING THE 400* C. FOR APPROXIMATELY 10 MINUTES AND SLOWLY COOLING TO ROOM TEMPERATURE. FILMS THUS FORMED ARE ADVANTAGEOUSLY EMPOLYED IN THE RECORDING OF DIGITAL INFORMATION BY ELECTRON BEAM HEATING INDIVIDUAL REGIONS THROUGH A FIRST ORDER TRANSISTION TO THE FERROMAGNETIC STATE WHEREUPON THE REGIONS ARE PERMITTED TO COOL TO A BIASING TEMPERATURE SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN THE TEMPERATURE OF TRANSISTION BACK TO AN ANTIFEROMAGNETIC STATE. A MAGNETIC FIELD THEN IS APPLIED TO THE ENTIRE FILM TO MAGNETIZE ONLY THOSE REGIONS OF THE FILM IN THE FERROMAGNETIC STATE AND READOUT OF THE RECORDED INFORMATION CAN BE ACHIEVED BY CONVENTIONAL ELECTRON BEAM MICROSCOPY. THE FERROMAGNETISM OF THE FILM SUBSEQUENTLY CAN BE ERASED BY COOLING THE FILM BELOW THE TRANSISTION TEMPERATURE TO THE ANTIFERROMAGNETIC STATE OR BY THE APPLICATION OF A STRAIN TO THE FILM.
摘要:
A magnetic logic cell includes a first electrode portion, a magnetic portion arranged on the first electrode, the magnetic portion including an anti-ferromagnetic material or a ferrimagnetic material, a dielectric portion arranged on the magnetic portion, and a second electrode portion arranged on the dielectric portion.
摘要:
A method of producing bit-patterned media is provided whereby a shell structure is added on a bit-patterned media dot. The shell may be an antiferromagnetic material that will help stabilize the magnetization configuration at the remanent state due to exchange coupling between the dot and its shell. Therefore, this approach also improves the thermal stability of the media dot and helps each individual media dot maintain a single domain state.
摘要:
A memory device is described. The memory device comprises an antiferromagnet. The device may comprise an insulator and an electrode arranged in a tunnel junction configuration. Alternatively, the device may comprise first and second contacts to the antiferromagnet for measuring ohmic resistance of the antiferromagnet. The antiferromagnet is not coupled to any ferromagnet. The state of the antiferromagnet can be set by heating the junction to a temperature at or above a critical temperature at which is possible to re-orientate magnetic moments in the antiferromagnet, applying an external magnetic field and then cooling the antiferromagnet to a temperature below the critical temperature.
摘要:
A process for fabricating an antiferromagnetic layer includes depositing on a substrate a first layer with a sufficient thickness to establish a specific magnetic order from among one of the following orders, ferrimagnetic, ferromagnetic, paramagnetic, diamagnetic; after establishing the ferrimagnetic, ferromagnetic, paramagnetic or diamagnetic order, applying a magnetic field with sufficient amplitude and duration to shift walls of the magnetic domains of the first layer from a first statistical distribution to a second statistical distribution, the second statistical distribution presenting a minimum magnetic domain size strictly greater than the minimum magnetic domain size of the first statistical distribution and; for a given area, magnetic domains in which the perimeter is greater than that of domains from the first statistical distribution; and depositing on the first layer whose magnetic domain walls have been shifted, a second layer of an antiferromagnetic material in which at least one of the components of material of the first layer may be integrated by diffusion during growth.
摘要:
An information storage medium with an array of laterally magnetised dots, as well as a process for producing this medium is disclosed.Each dot (2) contains at least one magnetic domain formed by a thin layer (4) of at least a magnetic material laterally covering this flat material and deposited at oblique incidence relative to the normal (z) to the plane (6) of the array. The invention applies in particular to computer hard drives.
摘要:
An oxide (NiO, CoO, NiCoO) antiferromagnetic exchange bias layer produced by ion beam sputtering of an oxide target in pure argon (Ar) sputtering gas, with no oxygen gas introduced into the system. Antiferromagnetic oxide layers are used, for example, in magnetoresistive readback heads to shift the hysteresis loops of ferromagnetic films away from the zero field axis. For example, NiO exchange bia layers have been fabricated using ion beam sputtering of an NiO target using Ar ions, with the substrate temperature at 200.degree. C., the ion beam voltage at 1000V and the beam current at 20 mA, with a deposition rate of about 0.2 .ANG./sec. The resulting NiO film was amorphous.