All Oxide-Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Fabricated by Focused Ion Beam Nanomachining Technique

Author:

Tiwari Kaushal1ORCID,Bera Anup Kumar1ORCID,Godha Akshat1ORCID,Makineni Surendra Kumar1ORCID,Blamire Mark2ORCID,Prasad Bhagwati1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

2. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS, UK

Abstract

This study offers a comprehensive investigation into the fabrication of all-oxide-based magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) utilizing the focused ion beam (FIB) nanomachining method. The oxide thin films of SrTiO3 (STO), La[Formula: see text]CaxMnO3 (LCMO) and La[Formula: see text]SrxMnO3 (LSMO) were grown using pulsed laser deposition (PLD). Magnetization measurements at 5K revealed a notable difference in coercivity between LCMO and LSMO films, highlighting their suitability as electrodes in MTJ device fabrication. The deposited trilayer structure of LCMO/STO/LSMO exhibited heteroepitaxial growth, enabling the independent magnetic switching of electrode layers in the MTJ with the STO barrier layer. Conventional photolithography and ion milling were used to create a series of 4[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m Hall bar tracks in the deposited films. Nanopillar devices, sized 250[Formula: see text]nm[Formula: see text]×[Formula: see text]250[Formula: see text]nm, were successfully fabricated on these 4[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m tracks by optimizing the FIB nanomachining technique. The fabricated MTJs demonstrated a high tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) response, leading to the conclusion that the FIB nanomachining technique holds significant promise for the development of high-performance oxide-based spintronic devices.

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd

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