Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic memory devices having a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction
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Application No.: US15284519Application Date: 2016-10-03
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Publication No.: US09859333B2Publication Date: 2018-01-02
- Inventor: Woojin Kim , Ki Woong Kim , Woo Chang Lim
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR
- Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: Renaissance IP Law Group LLP
- Priority: KR10-2013-0091983 20130802
- Main IPC: H01L43/00
- IPC: H01L43/00 ; H01L29/82 ; H01L27/22 ; H01L43/08 ; G11C11/16 ; H01L43/02 ; H01L43/10 ; H01F10/32

Abstract:
A magnetic memory device may include a free magnetic structure and a reference magnetic structure that are separated from each other by a tunnel barrier. The free magnetic structure may include an exchange-coupling layer, and first and second free layers that are separated from each other by the exchange-coupling layer. The first free layer may be provided between the second free layer and the tunnel barrier. A thickness of the first free layer may be greater than a first maximum anisotropy thickness, being the thickness at which the first free layer has maximum perpendicular anisotropy. A thickness of the second free layer may be smaller than a second maximum anisotropy thickness, being the thickness at which the second free layer has maximum perpendicular anisotropy. A magnetic tunnel junction having two free layers with different thicknesses can enable a magnetic memory device that has increased MR ratio and reduced switching current.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170025472A1 MAGNETIC MEMORY DEVICES HAVING A PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION Public/Granted day:2017-01-26
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