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Exchange Bias Coupling Depending on Uniaxial Deposition Field of Antiferromagnetic FeMn Layer

Journal of Magnetics, Volume 15, Number 1, 31 Mar 2010, Pages 17-20
Sang-Suk Lee * (Department of Oriental Biomedical Engineering, Sangji University), Do-Guwn Hwang (Department of Oriental Biomedical Engineering, Sangji University)
Abstract
The relationship between ferromagnet anisotropic magnetization and the antiferromagnet atomic spin configuration was investigated for various angles of the uniaxial deposition magnetic field of the FeMn layer in the Corning glass/Ta(5nm)/NiFe(7nm)/FeMn(25nm)/Ta(5nm) multilayer that was prepared by the ion beam sputter deposition. The exchange bias field (Hex) obtained from the measurement of the easy-axis MR loop decreased to 40 Oe at the deposition field angle of 45o, and to 0 Oe at the angle of 90o. When the difference between the uniaxial axis between the ferromagnet NiFe and the antiferromagnet FeMn was 90o, the strong antiferromagnetic dipole moment of FeMn caused the weak ferromagnetic dipole moment of NiFe to rotate in the interface.
Keywords: exchange bias coupling; NiFe/FeMn bilayer; uniaxial deposition field; deposition field angle
DOI: 10.4283/JMAG.2010.15.1.017
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