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Chemically manipulated anomalous Hall effect and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Co/Pt multilayers

  • Shao Long Jiang
  • , Xi Chen
  • , Jing Yan Zhang
  • , Guang Yang
  • , Jiao Teng
  • , Xu Jing Li
  • , Yi Cao
  • , Zhi Duo Zhao
  • , Kang Yang
  • , Yang Liu
  • , Guang Hua Yu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Science and Technology Beijing

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Abstract

Chemically manipulated anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) have been studied in MgO/[Co/Pt] 3 /MgO multilayers by introducing a Mg metal layer between the Co layer and the top MgO layer. It is shown that the saturation anomalous Hall resistivity (ρ AH ) and effective magnetic anisotropy (K eff ) are 125% and 26% larger than those in the multilayers without Mg insertion, respectively. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis shows that the enhancement of AHE and PMA is primarily ascribed to effective control of chemical states at the Co/MgO interface.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)263-266
Number of pages4
JournalApplied Surface Science
Volume320
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Nov 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Anomalous Hall effect
  • Interface chemical states
  • Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy
  • X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

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