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- the present invention relates to a tunnel magnetoresistive element, and more particularly to a ferromagnetic tunnel magnetoresistive element whose output signal is increased, a tunnel magnetoresistive element whose bias resistance is controlled by its magnetoresistive effect, and a crystal orientation of the element.
- This is related to a tunnel magnetoresistive element in which is controlled in the (001) direction of a body-centered cubic lattice, a face-centered cubic lattice or a square lattice.
- the tunnel magnetoresistance effect is a phenomenon in which the electrical resistance of a ferromagnetic tunnel junction in which an insulator is sandwiched between ferromagnetic metal electrodes changes according to the relative directions of magnetization of the two ferromagnetic electrodes. .
- the magnitude of the magnetic resistance is represented by the following equation.
- Magnetoresistance effect [(R anti-parallel one R parallel) / R parallel] X 100 (%)...
- R parallel and R anti-parallel are the directions of the magnetism of two ferromagnetic electrodes, respectively. Are the parallel and antiparallel electrical resistances. This phenomenon was discovered in 1995 [T. Miyazaki and N. Tezuka, J. Magn. Mater., Vol. 139 (1995) L231.].
- Research on the application of pick-ups to magnetic sensors and ferromagnetic random access memories is in progress. To realize a magnetic sensor or a ferromagnetic random access memory utilizing this effect, a large magnetoresistance effect is required, and it is desirable that the magnitude of the magnetoresistance effect under a finite bias voltage be artificially controlled.
- Magnetoresistance C2P, P 2 / (1-P, P 2 )] X 100 (%)... (2) Therefore, to obtain a large magnetoresistance effect, use a substance with a large spin polarization. There is a need. For this purpose, for example, an attempt is made to increase the spin polarization by making an alloy of Fe and C0. It is considered that the limit of this method is about 70% or less in terms of magnetoresistance.
- Mo 0 dera et al. Attempted to change the bias dependence of magnetoresistance by sandwiching a polycrystalline non-magnetic intermediate layer between a ferromagnetic electrode and a barrier layer (Mo 0 dera, Phys. Rev. Le. tt., vol. 83, 1999, age 3029-3032.
- Fig. 1 shows the dependence of the junction magnetoresistance effect on the thickness of the Au intermediate layer at zero bias and 77K for such a magnetoresistive element.
- the abscissa indicates the thickness (nm) of the Au intermediate layer and the vertical axis indicates the vertical axis.
- the axis shows the magnetoresistance effect.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the dependence of the magnetoresistance effect on the bias voltage.
- the horizontal axis shows the bias voltage (V) and the vertical axis shows the magnetoresistance effect.
- the electron scattering of the non-magnetic intermediate layer is suppressed, and the It is desired to develop an element that does not greatly reduce the resistance effect and can take out the oscillation of the spin polarization in the nonmagnetic layer as the magnetoresistance effect.
- Mg ⁇ ⁇ (001) single crystal as the barrier layer can provide a giant tunnel magnetoresistance effect [J. Mathon, et al., Physical Rev. ew B, volume 63 (20 01), page 220403 (R) — 1-4), and a large tunnel magnetoresistance effect exceeding 60% has been obtained experimentally [M. Bo wen eta l., Ap li ed Physics Lett ters, volume 79, number 11 (2001), age 1655—1657].
- a single crystal substrate is indispensable for fabricating the device, and it is difficult to fabricate the device on a silicon LSI. Disclosure of the invention
- a first object of the present invention is to provide a spin polarization degree by changing only the film thickness without changing the chemical composition of an existing material having excellent magnetic properties in view of the first situation.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a tunnel magnetoresistive element capable of increasing the magnetoresistance and obtaining a greater magnetoresistance effect.
- a second object of the present invention is to develop an element structure that suppresses electron scattering of the nonmagnetic intermediate layer in view of the second situation, and to suppress a decrease in the magnetoresistance effect due to the insertion of the nonmagnetic intermediate layer.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a tunnel magnetoresistive element capable of artificially controlling the bias voltage dependence of the magnetoresistance effect by precisely controlling the thickness of the nonmagnetic intermediate layer.
- a third object of the present invention is to find a suitable seed material in view of the above third situation, and to develop a technique for growing the crystal with high orientation and flatness, thereby obtaining an amorphous or polycrystalline material. It is an object of the present invention to provide a tunnel magnetoresistive element having a highly oriented and flat interface, regardless of the underlying structure and unevenness.
- a base film In a tunnel magnetoresistive element, a base film, an ultrathin ferromagnetic film formed on the base film, an insulating film formed on the ultrathin ferromagnetic film, It has a ferromagnetic electrode formed.
- the ultrathin ferromagnetic film has a thickness on the order of an atomic layer.
- the ultrathin ferromagnetic film has a thickness of 1 atomic layer to 15 atomic layers.
- the underlayer is a nonmagnetic or antiferromagnetic metal film formed on a ferromagnetic exchange coupling film.
- the nonmagnetic or antiferromagnetic metal film is formed of Au, Ag, Cu, Cr, V, Nb, Mo, Ta, W, A1, Pt, It is characterized by comprising Ir, Rh, Ru, Pd, 0 s or Mn.
- the crystal orientation of the nonmagnetic metal film is (100) ⁇ 10 degrees, (111) ⁇ 10 degrees, (11 0) Soil 10 degrees or (1 12) ⁇ 10 degrees to provide more flatness.
- a tunnel magnetoresistive element having a structure in which a nonmagnetic metal single crystal or a nonmagnetic highly oriented polycrystalline intermediate layer is inserted between a barrier layer and a ferromagnetic electrode.
- the single crystal orientation of the nonmagnetic metal single crystal is (100) ⁇ 10 degrees, and (111) ⁇ 10 degrees of a cubic system. , (1 10) ⁇ 10 degrees or (1 ⁇ 2) ⁇ 10 degrees to improve electron conduction characteristics and flatness.
- the invention is characterized in that the tunnel magnetoresistive element described in the above [9] is connected and arranged at an intersection of a word line and a bit line of a matrix type magnetic random access memory.
- a tunnel magnetoresistive element is characterized by having an underlayer consisting of a double layer of an MgO amorphous layer and a highly oriented MgO (001) layer.
- the thickness of the Mg0 amorphous layer is 3 to 1 Onm, and the thickness of the MgO (001) highly oriented layer is 3 to 10 nm. In this way, surface irregularities are suppressed to be small.
- the ferromagnetic electrode layer is oriented in the (001) direction of a body-centered cubic lattice, a face-centered cubic lattice, or a square lattice by using the underlayer, It is characterized in that a large magnetoresistance effect is obtained by using the Mg ⁇ (001) highly oriented layer as a barrier layer.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the dependence of the junction magnetoresistance effect on the thickness of the Au intermediate layer at 77 K at zero bias of a conventional magnetoresistance effect element.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the dependence of the magnetoresistance effect on the thickness of the Au intermediate layer at 77 K at zero bias of a conventional magnetoresistance effect element.
- FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a ferromagnetic tunnel magneto-resistance element showing a first example of a first group of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a view showing characteristics of a ferromagnetic tunnel magnetoresistance device showing a first example of a first group of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a ferromagnetic tunnel magnetoresistive element showing a second embodiment of the first group of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a sectional view of a tunnel magnetoresistive element according to a second group of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of a tunneling magneto-resistance element showing an example of the group of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the dependence of the magnetoresistance at room temperature on the Cu layer thickness at a low bias of the tunnel magnetoresistance element according to the second group of embodiments of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the dependence of the magnetoresistance at room temperature on the bias of the tunnel magnetoresistance element according to the second group of embodiments of the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a first circuit configuration example to which the first group of tunnel magnetoresistive elements of the present invention is applied.
- FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a second circuit configuration example to which the first group of tunnel magnetoresistive elements of the present invention is applied.
- FIG. 12 is a schematic view of a flattened tunneling magneto-resistance element according to a third group of the present invention.
- FIG. 13 is a sectional view of a flattened tunnel magnetoresistive element showing an example of the third group of the present invention.
- FIG. 14 shows an embodiment of the third group of the present invention, in which a MgO amorphous / (001) highly oriented composite underlayer is grown on an Si substrate with an oxide film, and a high
- FIG. 4 is a diagram showing X-ray diffraction of an example in which a quality tunnel magnetoresistive element is manufactured.
- FIG. 15 shows a third group of embodiments of the present invention, in which a MgO amorphous / (001) highly oriented composite underlayer is grown on an Si substrate with an oxide film, and a high It is a figure which shows the cross section electron microscope image of the example which manufactured the quality tunnel magnetoresistive element.
- FIG. 16 shows an embodiment of the third group of the present invention, in which an Mg / amorphous / (001) highly oriented composite underlayer is grown on an Si substrate with an oxide film, and a high It is a figure which shows the high-resolution cross-sectional electron microscope image of the example which manufactured the quality tunnel magnetoresistive element.
- FIG. 17 shows an embodiment of the third group of the present invention, in which a high-quality composite underlayer with MgO amorphous (001) is provided on a polycrystalline metal electric wiring having an uneven surface. It is sectional drawing of a tunnel magnetoresistive element. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
- FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a ferromagnetic tunnel magnetoresistive element showing a first embodiment of the first group of the present invention.
- reference numeral 1 denotes a base film, for example, a non-magnetic metal film or an antiferromagnetic metal film
- 2 denotes an ultra-thin ferromagnetic film of a tunnel magnetoresistive element. From 15 atomic layers.
- 3 is an insulating film
- 4 is a ferromagnetic electrode.
- an extremely thin ultra-thin ferromagnetic film 2 is used as an electrode to obtain a greater magnetoresistance effect.
- the thickness of the magnetic film 2 is desirably one atomic layer.
- This ferromagnetic layer prevents Au, Ag, Cu, Cr, V, Nb, Mo, Ta, W, A 1, P t , Ir, Rh, Ru, Pd, ⁇ s, or Mn, and is preferably grown on the nonmagnetic or antiferromagnetic metal film 1.
- the underlying film is a single crystal.
- the underlying crystal has cubic symmetry, and its orientation is (100), (111), (110) or (111). Is desirable. '
- a very thin film of Fe is grown on a single crystal surface of Cr, and a ferromagnetic tunnel junction is formed by growing an alumina insulating film and a C 0 Fe upper electrode on the film.
- Figure 4 shows the dependence of the magnetoresistance effect of the tunnel junction on the Fe film thickness.
- the magnetoresistive effect is almost doubled by increasing the thickness of the Fe layer to 4 to 10 atomic layers.
- FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a ferromagnetic tunnel magnetoresistive element showing a first embodiment of the first group of the present invention.
- the nonmagnetic or antiferromagnetic metal film 1 shown in the first embodiment is replaced with a ferromagnetic exchange-coupling film (composition is made of a ferromagnetic metal such as Fe, Co, and Ni and its alloy, and (Pt, Pd, Ir, Ru, etc.
- Non-magnetic or anti-ferromagnetic interlayer composition is Au, Ag, Cu, Cr, Pt, Pd, Ir, Ru, Rh, etc., or alloy thereof
- Artificial antiferromagnetic with 12 formed instead of the coupling film 13 the structure was such that the magnetization of the ultrathin ferromagnetic film 2 was fixed by antiferromagnetic exchange coupling with the ferromagnetic exchange coupling film 11.
- the magnetization of the ultrathin ferromagnetic film 2 can be fixed without affecting the electronic state.
- the thickness of the nonmagnetic or antiferromagnetic intermediate film 12 is determined so that antiferromagnetic exchange coupling acts between the ultrathin ferromagnetic film 2 and the ferromagnetic exchange coupling film 11 (for example, When the intermediate film is a fee-Ir (100) film, its thickness should be between 3 and 6 atomic layers].
- FIG. 6 is a sectional view of a tunnel magnetoresistive element according to the first group of the present invention.
- a non-magnetic metal single crystal or a non-magnetic metal highly oriented polycrystalline intermediate layer 102 then an insulating layer 103 and a ferromagnetic electrode 104 are formed on the ferromagnetic electrode 101.
- the non-magnetic layer of the tunnel magnetoresistive element having the non-magnetic intermediate layer was a non-magnetic metal single crystal or a non-magnetic metal highly-oriented polycrystalline intermediate layer 102.
- the magnetoresistance effect can be obtained. Can be set higher.
- the crystal orientation of the non-magnetic intermediate layer is set to (100) ⁇ 10 degrees, (111) ⁇ 10 degrees, (110) ⁇ 10 degrees, or (111) of a cubic system.
- FIG. 7 is a sectional view of a tunnel magnetoresistive element showing a first embodiment of the second group of the present invention.
- a buffer layer is grown in the order of Pt, Co, and Cu on a M g ⁇ (100) single crystal or highly oriented polycrystalline substrate, and after the surface is made very flat, as shown in FIG.
- a Co (100) single crystal electrode 1 1 1 and a Cu (1 00) nonmagnetic single crystal intermediate layer 1 1 2 are grown, and an alumina barrier (A 1-0 bar barrier) 1 13 is formed on it.
- the magnetoresistance effect at low bias is as shown in Fig. 8 with respect to the thickness of the Cu layer 112. Changes vibratingly. From this result, it is clear that spin polarization is controlled by the insertion of the Cu layer 112.
- the film thickness at which the magnetoresistance effect reaches 110 is about nm, and is shown in FIG. It is about 5 times better than the results of the conventional Moo de ra.
- Si or GaAs (100) single crystal can be used for the substrate.
- Mg ⁇ (100) or GaAs (100) is used as the substrate.
- a highly stable magnetic field sensor can be realized. Since the resistance of the magnetoresistive element changes with temperature, prepare a magnetoresistive element with the same two characteristics to measure the magnetoresistive effect, apply a measurement magnetic field to only one of the elements, and change the resistance at that time. Is usually used in comparison with the other element. However, this method has a problem that the circuit of the device becomes complicated and the measurement is erroneous due to the variation between elements.
- the second group of the present invention uses a single crystal artificial lattice made of a ferromagnetic metal and a non-magnetic metal for the lower electrode, and performs quantum size effects, in particular, formation of a spin-polarized quantum well level and tunnel magnetic field.
- the relationship between the resistance effects was investigated.
- MTJ magnetic tunnel junction
- a nonmagnetic Cu (100) layer (0 to 32 persons) inserted between a single crystal fcc Co (100) electrode and amorphous A1- Fig. 8 shows the results of measuring the dependence of the tunnel magnetoresistance effect on the Cu film thickness.
- the MR (magnetoresistive) ratio showed a damped oscillation of 12.5 cycles with respect to the Cu film thickness.
- This oscillation period coincides with the period of the interlayer coupling (P eriod) of the Co (100) / Cu (100) multilayer, and the spin polarization generated in the Cu (100) layer is first 0 c believed to be due to the pole quantum well level diagram is a diagram showing a first circuitry configuration example of applying the tunneling magnetoresistive element of the first group of the present invention.
- 121 is a lead wire
- 112 is a bit line
- 113 is a tunnel magnetoresistive element of the present invention
- 124 is a DC power supply
- 125 is an ammeter.
- tunnel magnetoresistive element of the present invention By using the tunnel magnetoresistive element of the present invention, a very simple ferromagnetic random access memory can be constructed.
- MOS-FET As a pass transistor in order to access the tunneling magneto-resistance element, which is the carrier of the recording.
- FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a second circuit configuration example to which the second group of tunnel magnetoresistive elements of the present invention is applied.
- 13 1 is a word line
- 13 2 is a bit line
- 13 3 is a tunnel magnetoresistive element of the present invention
- 13 4 is a harmonic detector
- 13 5 is a high frequency power supply.
- the magnetoresistance is measured by a linear response
- the contribution to the signal between the target element and the surrounding elements is 1: 1/3 if the magnetoresistance does not have bias dependence, but it depends on the second-order response that is a nonlinear response.
- the signal ratio will be 1: 1/9, and crosstalk from peripheral elements can be greatly reduced.
- the bias dependence of the response If designed optimally, it is possible to take a large value with this ratio.
- the single crystal fcc Cu (100) was used as the intermediate layer.
- a single crystal of Au, Ag, Cr or an alloy using these as a base material or a highly oriented polycrystal is used. May be used.
- FIG. 12 is a schematic view of a flattened tunneling magneto-resistance element according to the third group of the present invention.
- Such a flattened tunnel magnetoresistive element is manufactured by the following procedure.
- substrate (S i LSI, etc. S I_ ⁇ 2) washing the 20 1 with ultrapure water.
- Mg 0 initially grows as amorphous, and becomes an MgO amorphous layer 202 and thereafter a highly oriented crystal layer 203 of MgO (00 1) orientation. It is desirable that the film thickness of the Mg ⁇ amorphous layer 202 is 3 to 10 nm and that of the MgO (00 1) crystal layer 203 is 3 to 1 O nm.
- FIG. 13 is a sectional view of a flattened tunneling magneto-resistance element showing an embodiment of the third group of the present invention.
- 11 1 is a Si substrate with an oxide film
- 2 12 is a Mg ⁇ film (10 nm)
- 2 13 is a Fe (00 1) layer (20 nm)
- 2 14 is Amorphous A11 layer
- 115 is the upper electrode (polycrystalline Ni_Fe) layer
- 116 is the Au cap layer.
- the Si wafer (substrate) 211 with an oxide film is washed with ultrapure water.
- A1_ ⁇ tunnel barrier layer (amorphous A1-0 layer) 214.
- An upper electrode (polycrystalline Ni_Fe) layer 215 and an Au cap layer 216 are formed.
- the magnetoresistive element manufactured through the above process is put out into the atmosphere, and X-ray diffraction (Fig. 14), cross-sectional transmission electron microscope image (Figs. 15 and 16), and processed into a device to produce a magnetoresistive effect was measured.
- FIG. 14 shows an embodiment of the third group of the present invention, in which an MgO amorphous / (001) highly oriented composite underlayer is grown on an Si substrate with an oxide film, and a high-quality tunnel magnetoresistive element is formed thereon.
- FIG. 4 is a view showing an X-ray diffraction of an example in which is manufactured.
- the vertical axis indicates the X-ray diffraction intensity (cps). The more crystal planes parallel to the sample surface exist in the sample, and the better the crystallinity, the higher the diffraction intensity.
- the horizontal axis shows the diffraction angle (degree), which corresponds to the spacing of the crystal planes, so that different crystal planes produce peaks at different diffraction angles.
- the use of the MgO double underlayer film of the present invention makes it possible to reduce unevenness on the surface of the ferromagnetic electrode layer, that is, to suppress it to 0.15 nm or less.
- the results were obtained by setting the thickness of the Mg ⁇ amorphous layer to 3 to 10 nm and the thickness of the Mg ⁇ highly oriented film to 3 to 10 nm.
- a FeCo alloy ferromagnetic layer as a lower ferromagnetic layer is formed as an electron layer.
- a thin layer is grown on a single layer, amorphous alumina is grown on the thin layer to form a barrier, and finally the FeC0 polycrystalline alloy is used as the upper electrode.
- the effect increased.
- the thickness of the lower ferromagnetic layer was reduced to 15 atomic layers or less, the magnetoresistance effect increased more than twice as much as that of the thick film.
- a magnetoresistance effect exceeding 70% was obtained at room temperature.
- the bias dependence of the tunnel magnetoresistance effect can be controlled by adjusting the thickness of the Cu (001) nonmagnetic insertion layer to 20 atomic layers or less, as in the case of the single crystal underlayer. did it.
- the thickness of the Cu (001) magnetic insertion layer is about 3 atomic layers, no magnetoresistance effect is exhibited at a bias voltage of 13 OmV, but 13 OmV at a bias voltage of 40 OmV.
- An element exhibiting a large magnetoresistance effect of 10 times or more as compared with the case of (1) was manufactured.
- the magnetoresistive elements of the third group of the present invention at the intersections of the wirings of the ferromagnetic random access memories wired in an X, y matrix, even if there is no path transistor, The stored contents can be read without crosstalk with other storage cells.
- the bias dependence of the magnetoresistance can be controlled.
- a very large tunnel magnetoresistance effect exceeding 90% was obtained in combination with the heat treatment.
- a large magnetoresistance effect was obtained by fabricating a tunnel magnetoresistive element including an Mg ⁇ (001) highly oriented barrier layer using the Mg ⁇ double underlayer.
- FIG. 17 shows an embodiment of the third group of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a tunneling magnetoresistive element.
- 1 2 1 is a lower electric wiring
- 2 2 2 is a Mg ⁇ double underlayer
- 2 3 is a lower ferromagnetic electrode
- 2 24 is a barrier layer
- 2 2 5 is an upper ferromagnetic electrode
- 2 2 6 is An electrical insulating layer
- 227 is an upper electrical wiring.
- a tunnel magnetoresistive element having a large magnetoresistance effect can be obtained by precisely and extremely thinning the thickness of an electrode on the order of atomic layers.
- the ferromagnetic metal electrode of the tunnel magnetoresistive element very thin, the magnetization or the substantial spin polarization of the ferromagnetic material is increased, and as a result, a greater magnetoresistance effect can be obtained.
- the single crystal orientation of the nonmagnetic metal base film is cubic (100) ⁇ 10 degrees, (1 1 1) ⁇ 10 degrees, (1 10) ⁇ 10 degrees, or (1 12) ⁇ 10 degrees. By doing so, flatness can be further provided.
- the magnetization is fixed without affecting the electronic state of the ultrathin ferromagnetic film by using a nonmagnetic metal film or an antiferromagnetic metal film formed on the ferromagnetic exchange coupling film as the underlayer. be able to.
- the intermediate layer is made of Cu, Au, Ag, Cr or an alloy film using these as a base material. By controlling the thickness and selecting the optimum thickness, the magnetoresistance effect can be increased. Can be set to
- the crystal orientation of the nonmagnetic intermediate layer is (100) ⁇ 10 degrees, (11 1) ⁇ 10 degrees, (1 10) ⁇ 10 degrees, or (1 12) By controlling at ⁇ 10 degrees, a greater magnetoresistance effect can be obtained.
- the tunnel magnetoresistive element of the present invention is suitable for a magnetic sensor of a pickup head of a fixed magnetic disk ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ a ferromagnetic random access memory.
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