Abstract
Temperature plays an important role in spin-torque switching of magnetic tunnel junctions, causing magnetization fluctuations that decrease the switching voltage but also introduce switching errors. Here we present a systematic study of the temperature dependence of the spin-torque-switching probability of state-of-the-art perpendicular-magnetic-tunnel-junction nanopillars (40--60 nm in diameter) from room temperature down to 4 K, sampling up to a million switching events. The junction temperature at the switching voltage---obtained from the thermally assisted spin-torque-switching model---saturates at temperatures below about 75 K, showing that junction heating is significant below this temperature and that spin-torque switching remains highly stochastic down to 4 K. A model of heat flow in a nanopillar junction shows this effect is associated with the reduced thermal conductivity and heat capacity of the metals in the junction.
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