Temperature dependence of the spin Hall angle and switching current in the nc-W(O)/CoFeB/MgO system with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

We investigated the temperature dependence of the switching current for a perpendicularly magnetized CoFeB film deposited on a nanocrystalline tungsten film with large oxygen content: nc-W(O). The spin Hall angle $\mathrm{\mid }{\mathrm{\Theta }}_{\mathrm{S}\mathrm{H}}\mathrm{\mid }\approx 0.22$ is independent of temperature, whereas the switching current increases strongly at low temperature. We show that the nc-W(O) is insensitive to annealing. It thus can be a good choice for the integration of spin Hall driven writing of information in magnetic memory or logic devices that require a high-temperature annealing process during fabrication.