Abstract:
A memory apparatus includes a first electrode having a spin orbit material. The memory apparatus further includes a first memory device on a portion of the first electrode and a first dielectric adjacent to a sidewall of the first memory device. The memory apparatus further includes a second memory device on a portion of the first electrode and a second dielectric adjacent to a sidewall of the second memory device. A second electrode is on and in contact with a portion of the first electrode, where the second electrode is between the first memory device and the second memory device. The second electrode has a lower electrical resistance than an electrical resistance of the first electrode. The memory apparatus further includes a first interconnect structure and a second interconnect, each coupled with the first electrode.
Abstract:
A spin orbit torque (SOT) memory device includes a SOT electrode having a spin orbit coupling material. The SOT electrode has a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall. The SOT memory device further includes a magnetic tunnel junction device on a portion of the SOT electrode. A first MTJ sidewall intersects the first SOT sidewall and a portion of the first MTJ sidewall and the SOT sidewall has a continuous first slope. The MTJ device has a second sidewall that does not extend beyond the second SOT sidewall and at least a portion of the second MTJ sidewall has a second slope.
Abstract:
An apparatus includes a first interconnect structure above a substrate, a memory device above and coupled with the first interconnect structure in a memory region. The memory device includes a non-volatile memory element, an electrode on the non-volatile memory element, and a metallization structure on a portion of the electrode. The apparatus further includes a second interconnect structure in a logic region above the substrate, where the second interconnect structure is laterally distant from the first interconnect structure. The logic region further includes a second metallization structure coupled to the second interconnect structure and a conductive structure between the second metallization structure and the second interconnect structure. The apparatus further includes a dielectric spacer that extends from the memory device to the conductive structure.
Abstract:
Embodiments herein relate to a system, apparatus, and/or process for producing a spin orbit torque (SOT) electrode that includes a first layer with a first side to couple with a free layer of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and a second layer coupled with a second side of the first layer opposite the first side, where a value of an electrical resistance in the first SOT layer is lower than a value of an electrical resistance in the second SOT layer and where a current applied to the SOT electrode is to cause current to preferentially flow in the first SOT layer to cause a magnetic polarization of the free layer to change directions. During production of the SOT electrode, the second layer may act as an etch stop.
Abstract:
A perpendicular spin orbit memory device includes a first electrode having a magnetic material and platinum and a material layer stack on a portion of the first electrode. The material layer stack includes a free magnet, a fixed magnet above the first electrode, a tunnel barrier between the free magnet and the fixed magnet and a second electrode coupled with the fixed magnet.
Abstract:
A memory device includes a first electrode, a conductive layer including iridium above the first electrode, a magnetic junction on the conductive layer and a second electrode above the magnetic junction. The magnetic junction includes a magnetic structure including a first magnetic layer including cobalt, a non-magnetic layer including platinum or tungsten on the first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer including cobalt on the non-magnetic layer. The magnetic junction further includes an anti-ferromagnetic layer on the magnet structure, a fixed magnet above the anti-ferromagnetic layer, a free magnet above the fixed magnet and a tunnel barrier between the fixed magnet and the free magnet.
Abstract:
A memory apparatus includes a first electrode having a spin orbit material. The memory apparatus further includes a first memory device on a portion of the first electrode and a first dielectric adjacent to a sidewall of the first memory device. The memory apparatus further includes a second memory device on a portion of the first electrode and a second dielectric adjacent to a sidewall of the second memory device. A second electrode is on and in contact with a portion of the first electrode, where the second electrode is between the first memory device and the second memory device. The second electrode has a lower electrical resistance than an electrical resistance of the first electrode. The memory apparatus further includes a first interconnect structure and a second interconnect, each coupled with the first electrode.
Abstract:
A memory device includes a first electrode, a conductive layer including iridium above the first electrode, a magnetic junction on the conductive layer and a second electrode above the magnetic junction. The magnetic junction includes a magnetic structure including a first magnetic layer including cobalt, a non-magnetic layer including platinum or tungsten on the first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer including cobalt on the non-magnetic layer. The magnetic junction further includes an anti-ferromagnetic layer on the magnet structure, a fixed magnet above the anti-ferromagnetic layer, a free magnet above the fixed magnet and a tunnel barrier between the fixed magnet and the free magnet.
Abstract:
A memory device includes a bottom electrode, a conductive layer such as an alloy including ruthenium and tungsten above the bottom electrode and a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ) on the conductive layer. In an embodiment, the pMTJ includes a fixed magnet, a tunnel barrier above the fixed magnet and a free magnet on the tunnel barrier. The memory device further includes a synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) structure that is ferromagnetically coupled with the fixed magnet to pin a magnetization of the fixed magnet. The conductive layer has a crystal texture which promotes high quality FCC crystal texture in the SAF structure and improves perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of the fixed magnet.
Abstract:
Methods of forming a memory device structure are described. Those methods may include forming a non-conductive spacer material on a top electrode of a magnetic tunnel junction structure, and then forming a highly selective material on the non-conductive spacer material of the magnetic tunnel junction prior to etching a bottom electrode of the magnetic tunnel junction.