Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic structures, semiconductor structures, and semiconductor devices
-
Application No.: US16796677Application Date: 2020-02-20
-
Publication No.: US11158670B2Publication Date: 2021-10-26
- Inventor: Wayne I. Kinney , Witold Kula , Stephen J. Kramer
- Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US ID Boise
- Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US ID Boise
- Agency: TraskBritt
- Main IPC: H01L27/22
- IPC: H01L27/22 ; G11C11/16 ; H01F10/32 ; H01L43/08 ; H01L43/02 ; H01L43/10

Abstract:
Memory cells are disclosed. Magnetic regions within the memory cells include an alternating structure of magnetic sub-regions and coupler sub-regions. The coupler material of the coupler sub-regions antiferromagnetically couples neighboring magnetic sub-regions and effects or encourages a vertical magnetic orientation exhibited by the neighboring magnetic sub-regions. Neighboring magnetic sub-regions, spaced from one another by a coupler sub-region, exhibit oppositely directed magnetic orientations. The magnetic and coupler sub-regions may each be of a thickness tailored to form the magnetic region in a compact structure. Interference between magnetic dipole fields emitted from the magnetic region on switching of a free region in the memory cell may be reduced or eliminated. Also disclosed are semiconductor device structures, spin torque transfer magnetic random-access memory (STT-MRAM) systems, and methods of fabrication.
Information query
IPC分类: