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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2021
Applicant:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Tsann Lin, Hsinchu, TW;
Ya-Ling Lee, Hsinchu, TW;
Assignee:
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H10N 50/80 (2023.01); H01F 10/32 (2006.01); H10B 61/00 (2023.01); H10N 50/01 (2023.01); H10N 50/85 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H10N 50/80 (2023.02); H10B 61/22 (2023.02); H10N 50/01 (2023.02); H10N 50/85 (2023.02); H01F 10/3286 (2013.01);
Abstract
A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) element is provided. The MTJ element includes a buffer layer, a seed layer disposed over the buffer layer, a reference layer disposed over the seed layer, a tunnel barrier layer disposed over the reference layer and a free layer disposed over the tunnel barrier layer. The seed layer includes a Cobalt (Co)-based film. The MTJ element in accordance with the present disclosure exhibits a low resistance desired for a low-power write operation, and a high TMR coefficient desired for a low bit-error-rate (BER) read operation.