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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2023
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Quang Le, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian R. York, San Jose, CA (US);
Cherngye Hwang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaoyong Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael A. Gribelyuk, San Jose, CA (US);
Son T. Le, San Jose, CA (US);
Hisashi Takano, Fujisawa, JP;
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to spin-orbit torque (SOT) device comprising a bismuth antimony (BiSb) layer. The SOT device comprises a seed layer and a BiSb layer having a (012) orientation. The seed layer comprises at least one of an amorphous/nanocrystalline material with a nearest neighbor x-ray diffraction peak with a d-spacing in the range of about 2.02 Å to about 2.20 Å; a polycrystalline material having a (111) orientation and an a-axis of about 3.53 Å to about 3.81 Å; and a polycrystalline material having a cubic (100) or tetragonal (001) orientation and an a-axis of about 4.1 Å to about 4.7 Å. When the seed layer comprises an amorphous material or a polycrystalline material having a (111), the BiSb layer is doped, and the seed layer has a lower a/c ratio than when the seed layer comprises polycrystalline material having a cubic (100) or tetragonal (001) orientation.