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Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) has been successfully used in spintronic devices, such as magnetoresistive random access memory, tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) sensor, magnetic logic. In the TMR sensor a special magnetic structure is used between the free layer and the pinned layer of an MTJ to realize a linear output. So far, five types of TMR linear sensing units (TMR-LSNs) have been developed based on MgO MTJs, which are artificial-indirect-double-exchange-coupling-, magnetic-field-biased-, in-plane-, perpendicular-, and superparamagnetic-TMR-LSN, respectively. In this paper, the five types of TMR-LSNs are combed and their magnetic sensing performances are systematically compared with each other. First, the five types of TMR-LSNs each have a linear resistance response to the external magnetic field with a changeable sensitivity, a linear field range and a low frequency noise level. Second, in the five types of TMR-LSNs different magnetic structures are used to realize the same aim that is to obtain the optimized performance parameters, which is of significance for putting TMR sensors into practical applications. Third, the five types of TMR-LSNs are suitable for different application scenarios due to their respective performance parameters. Therefore, we believe that our summarized discussion in this paper will help people to explore and find the relevant applications of TMR sensors based on the five types of TMR-LSNs.
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Keywords:
- magnetic tunnel junction /
- tunneling magnetoresistance linear sensing unit /
- magnetoresistive sensors
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图 1 基于单一MTJ结构的五种TMR线性传感单元的示意图, 其中反铁磁性层、铁磁性金属层(超顺磁性层)、势垒层是构成MTJ结构的主要材料层, (d) 图中的弹簧结构代表的是人工交换耦合结构的交换相互作用强度, 它决定了人工间接双交换耦合型的TMR线性传感单元的诸多性能参数
Figure 1. Sketch of five TMR linear sensing units based on a single MTJ, the antiferromagnetic layer, ferromagnetic metal layer (superparamagnetic layer) and barrier layer are the main layers of an MTJ structure. The spring structure in Fig.(d) represents the exchange interaction strength of the synthetic exchange-coupling structure, which determines many performance parameters of the synthetic indirect-double-exchange-coupling TMR linear sensing unit.
图 2 MTJ材料结构, TMR线性传感单元和TMR磁敏传感器的性能参数关系图
Figure 2. Performance parameter diagram of an MTJ, a TMR linear sensing unit, and a TMR magnetoresistive sensor.
表 1 基于单一 MgO MTJ的五种TMR线性传感单元的性能参数
Table 1. Performance parameters of five TMR linear sensing units based on a single MTJ.
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