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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Guohan Hu, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Cheng-Wei Chien, Hsinchu, TW;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method includes depositing a magnetic track layer on a seed layer, depositing an alloy layer on the magnetic track layer, depositing a tunnel barrier layer on the alloy layer, depositing a pinning layer on the tunnel barrier layer, depositing a synthetic antiferromagnetic layer spacer on the pinning layer, depositing a pinned layer on the synthetic antiferromagnetic spacer layer and depositing an antiferromagnetic layer on the pinned layer, and another method includes depositing an antiferromagnetic layer on a seed layer, depositing a pinned layer on the antiferromagnetic layer, depositing a synthetic antiferromagnetic layer spacer on the pinned layer, depositing a pinning layer on the synthetic antiferromagnetic layer spacer, depositing a tunnel barrier layer on the pinning layer, depositing an alloy layer on the tunnel barrier layer and depositing a magnetic track layer on alloy layer.