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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1996
Xiaodong T Zhu, Chandler, AZ (US);
Saied N Tehrani, Tempe, AZ (US);
Mark Durlam, Chandler, AZ (US);
Eugene Chen, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A plurality of layers of magnetic material are stacked in parallel, overlying relationship and separated by layers of non-magnetic material so as to form a multi-layer magnetic memory cell. The width of the cell is less than a width of magnetic domain walls within the magnetic layers so that magnetic vectors in the magnetic layers point along a length of the magnetic layers, and the ratio of the length to the width of the magnetic memory cell is in a range of 1.5 to 10. The magnetic layers are antiferromagnetically coupled when the ratio is less than 4 and ferromagnetically coupled when the ratio is greater than 4.