Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic tunnel junction device
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Application No.: US16855403Application Date: 2020-04-22
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Publication No.: US11585874B2Publication Date: 2023-02-21
- Inventor: Johan Swerts , Kevin Garello
- Applicant: IMEC vzw
- Applicant Address: BE Leuven
- Assignee: IMEC vzw
- Current Assignee: IMEC vzw
- Current Assignee Address: BE Leuven
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP
- Priority: EP19170492 20190423
- Main IPC: G01R33/09
- IPC: G01R33/09 ; G11C11/16 ; H01L27/22 ; H01L43/02 ; H01L43/08 ; H01L43/10

Abstract:
The disclosed technology relates generally to semiconductor devices and more particularly to magnetic tunnel junction devices. According to an aspect, an MTJ device comprises a spin-orbit-torque (SOT)-layer. The MTJ device additionally comprises a first free layer, a second free layer, a reference layer and a tunnel barrier layer arranged between the second free layer and the reference layer. The MTJ device further comprises a spacer layer arranged as an interfacial layer between the first free layer and the second free layer. The SOT-layer is adapted to switch a magnetization direction of the first free layer through SOT. The first free layer is adapted to generate a magnetic stray field acting on the second free layer such that a magnetization direction of the second free layer is responsive to a magnetization direction of the first free layer. According to another aspect, a circuit comprises the MTJ device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200341079A1 MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-10-29
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