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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1997
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A magnetic tunneling effect device capable of displaying a so-called magnetic tunneling effect in stability, more specifically, a magnetic tunneling junction device in which a first magnetic metal layer and a second magnetic metal layer are connected together by ferromagnetic tunnel junction via an insulating layer and in which the conductance of the tunnel current is changed by the relative angle of magnetization of these magnetic metal layers. The ferromagnetic tunnel junction has a junction area of not larger than 1 10 m . For reliably controlling the junction area of the ferromagnetic tunnel junction, the insulating layer is formed by a first insulating layer for ferromagnetic tunnel junction and a second insulating layer formed on the first insulating layer for controlling the junction area of the ferromagnetic tunnel junction.