Abstract

Current-induced magnetization switching was investigated in Au/Fe4N bilayer films grown by a plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PA-MBE) system. Depending on lattice distortion and interfacial coupling induced by substrates, the Fe4N layer could be divided into two sublayers having different magnetic anisotropies. The bottom sublayer shows perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), while the top one has in-plane magnetic anisotropy (IMA). Coupling between the two sublayers provides an extra in-plane effective field and enables a field-free magnetization switching in the bilayer films. By summarizing a series of Hall measurements, a switching phase diagram was obtained. Temperature-dependent switching behaviors demonstrate that the threshold current density for the field-free magnetization switching, which is much smaller than that of pervious reports, increases with decreasing temperature and shows similar temperature dependences to those of coercivity.

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