Degradation and time dependent breakdown of stressed ferromagnetic tunnel junctions
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· Journal of Applied Physics
Ferromagnetic tunnel junctions are very sensitive to degradation and breakdown, due to the ultrathin ({similar_to}1 nm) tunnel barrier. When the junction is stressed with a constant current or voltage, a conductance change of the tunnel junction is observed. Sufficiently high stress will lead to breakdown of the junction. As in SiO{sub 2} gate oxide reliability studies, the Weibull distribution plot can be obtained from the time to breakdown data. The dependence of the Weibull function on the area and the stress conditions is studied for the Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} barrier of the tunnel junctions. This is the first step of a systematic study of reliability, which is an important issue for the use of tunnel junctions in, e.g., magnetic random access memory applications. {copyright} 2001 American Institute of Physics.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 40204053
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Applied Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Applied Physics Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 89; ISSN 0021-8979
- Publisher:
- The American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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