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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2022
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Timothy Mathew Philip, Albany, NY (US);
Ching-Tzu Chen, Ossining, NY (US);
Kevin W. Brew, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Jin Ping Han, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Injo Ok, Albany, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of present invention provide a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure. The MTJ structure includes a MTJ stack, the MTJ stack including a tunnel barrier layer on a reference layer and a free layer on the tunnel barrier layer, wherein the free layer includes multiple sub free layers, the multiple sub free layers being multiple ferromagnetic strips placed parallel to each other on the tunnel barrier layer, the multiple ferromagnetic strips having respective first ends connected to a first electrode and respective second ends connected to a second electrode. A method of forming the MTJ structure is also provided.