Sub-Poissonian shot noise in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB-based magnetic tunneling junctions

Abstract

We measured the shot noise in the CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB-based magnetic tunneling junctions with a high tunneling magnetoresistance ratio (over 200% at 3 K). Although the Fano factor in the antiparallel configuration is close to unity, it is observed to be typically 0.91±0.01 in the parallel configuration. It indicates the sub-Poissonian process of the electron tunneling in the parallel configuration due to the relevance of the spin-dependent coherent transport in the low bias regime.