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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023

Filed:

May. 21, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventor:

Aakash Pushp, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01F 10/32 (2006.01); H01L 43/02 (2006.01); G11C 11/16 (2006.01); H01L 27/22 (2006.01); H01F 41/32 (2006.01); H01L 43/10 (2006.01); H01L 43/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01F 10/3259 (2013.01); G11C 11/161 (2013.01); H01F 10/3286 (2013.01); H01F 41/32 (2013.01); H01L 27/222 (2013.01); H01L 43/02 (2013.01); H01L 43/10 (2013.01); H01L 43/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various devices are described (along with methods for making them), where the device has a tunnel barrier sandwiched between two magnetic layers (one of the magnetic layers functioning as a free layer and the other of the magnetic layers functioning as a reference layer). One magnetic layer underlies the tunnel barrier and the other magnetic layer overlies the tunnel barrier, thereby permitting spin-polarized current to pass across the magnetic layers and through the tunnel barrier. At least one of the magnetic layers includes a metal oxide sublayer (e.g., an MgO sublayer) sandwiched between magnetic material.


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