Invention Grant
US08988935B2 Self-referenced MRAM cell and method for writing the cell using a spin transfer torque write operation
有权
自参考MRAM单元和使用自旋转移扭矩写入操作来写入单元的方法
- Patent Title: Self-referenced MRAM cell and method for writing the cell using a spin transfer torque write operation
- Patent Title (中): 自参考MRAM单元和使用自旋转移扭矩写入操作来写入单元的方法
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Application No.: US13720232Application Date: 2012-12-19
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Publication No.: US08988935B2Publication Date: 2015-03-24
- Inventor: Ioan Lucian Prejbeanu , Kenneth Mackay
- Applicant: Crocus Technology SA
- Applicant Address: FR Grenoble
- Assignee: Crocus Technology SA
- Current Assignee: Crocus Technology SA
- Current Assignee Address: FR Grenoble
- Agency: Pearne & Gordon LLP
- Priority: EP11290591 20111222
- Main IPC: G11C11/00
- IPC: G11C11/00 ; G11C11/16 ; G11C11/56 ; H01F10/32

Abstract:
The present disclosure concerns a method for writing to a self-referenced MRAM cell comprising a magnetic tunnel junction comprising: a storage layer including a first ferromagnetic layer having a first storage magnetization, a second ferromagnetic layer having a second storage magnetization, and a non-magnetic coupling layer separating the first and second ferromagnetic layers; a sense layer having a free sense magnetization; and a tunnel barrier layer included between the sense and storage layers; the first and second ferromagnetic layers being arranged such that a dipolar coupling between the storage) and the sense layers is substantially null; the method comprising: switching the second ferromagnetic magnetization by passing a spin-polarized current in the magnetic tunnel junction; wherein the spin-polarized current is polarized when passing in the sense layer, in accordance with the direction of the sense magnetization. The MRAM cell can be written with low power consumption.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130163318A1 Self-Referenced MRAM Cell and Method for Writing the Cell Using a Spin Transfer Torque Write Operation Public/Granted day:2013-06-27
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