Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hiroyoshi Itoh

Yoshiaki Sonobe

Disclosed is a magnetic tunnel junction device whose fixed layer has a simplified structure and in which the number of stacked layers is reduced. The magnetic tunnel junction device comprises a free layer whose magnetization direction is variable, a fixed layer whose magnetization direction is fixed and that is formed as a single layer, and a dielectric layer stacked between the free layer and the fixed layer. One or more of the free layer and the fixed layer are an L1type magnetic alloy layer, and the dielectric layer has a (111) texture.

Magnetic tunnel junction device and magnetic resistance memory device

A magnetic tunnel junction device includes a Heusler alloy layer that has not only a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy characteristic, but also a half-metallicity characteristic. For example, the magnetic tunnel junction device includes at least one Heusler alloy layer and a barrier layer. The barrier layer is in contact with the Heusler alloy layer and has an insulating property. A compressive strain is exerted on the Heusler alloy layer in a direction parallel to an interface between the Heusler alloy layer and the barrier layer.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiroyoshi Itoh