Extracting magnetic anisotropy energies in Co/Pd multilayers via refinement analysis of the full magnetoresistance curves

Yaniv Kachlon, Noa Kurzweil, Amos Sharoni

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Abstract

We performed magnetoresistance (MR) measurements on Co/Pd multilayers with perpendicular magnetization anisotropy, as a function of external magnetic field direction and magnitude. We find that anisotropic MR for magnetization perpendicular to plane (and to the current) is surprisingly larger than the anisotropic MR when magnetization is in-plane but perpendicular to the current. We develop a refinement process for accurately and easily extracting the anisotropy energies from the full set of MR measurements. We demonstrate its effectiveness for micron-scale electrodes of the multilayers. Here, using the additional difference in MR of the out-of-plane direction, we extract both the shape anisotropy energy and perpendicular anisotropy energy.

Original languageEnglish
Article number173911
JournalJournal of Applied Physics
Volume115
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 May 2014

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