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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2020
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jaewoo Jeong, San Jose, CA (US);
Mahesh G. Samant, San Jose, CA (US);
Yari Ferrante, San Jose, CA (US);
Panagiotis Charilaos Filippou, San Jose, CA (US);
Chirag Garg, Halle, DE;
Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin, San Jose, CA (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A method for providing a magnetic device and the magnetic device so provided are described. The magnetic device includes a magnetic layer having a surface. In some aspects, the magnetic layer is a free layer, a reference layer, or a top layer thereof. A tunneling barrier layer is deposited on the magnetic layer. At least a portion of the tunneling barrier layer adjacent to the magnetic layer is deposited at a deposition angle of at least thirty degrees from a normal to the surface of the magnetic layer. In some aspects, the deposition angle is at least fifty degrees.