@article{e95458632e24421180e56c61ec9c3a0f,
title = "Enhancing the blocking temperature of perpendicular-exchange biased Cr2O3 thin films using buffer layers",
abstract = "In this study, we investigated the effect of buffer layers on the blocking temperature (TB) of perpendicular exchange bias of thin Cr2O3/Co exchange coupled films with a Ru spacer and revealed a high TB of 260 K for 20-nm-thick Cr2O3 thin films. By comparing the TB values of the 20-nm-thick Cr2O3 films on Pt and α-Fe2O3 buffers, we investigated the lattice strain effect on the TB. We show that higher TB values can be obtained using an α-Fe2O3 buffer, which is likely because of the lattice strain-induced increase in Cr2O3 magnetocrystalline anisotropy.",
author = "Naoki Shimomura and Pati, {Satya Prakash} and Tomohiro Nozaki and Tatsuo Shibata and Masashi Sahashi",
note = "Funding Information: This research was partly supported by the Advanced Low Carbon Technology Research and Development Program (ALCA) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the ImPACT Program of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (Cabinet Office, Japan Government), the Murata Science foundation, and a Grant-in-Aid from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellows JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 16H05975. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Author(s).",
year = "2017",
month = feb,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1063/1.4977714",
language = "English",
volume = "7",
journal = "AIP Advances",
issn = "2158-3226",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Publising LLC",
number = "2",
}