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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
May. 01, 2000
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
First and second magnetic layers are laminated though a tunnel barrier layer, wherein a region is formed in which change in a magnetic resistance ratio with respect to change in a voltage applied in such a manner that the second magnetic layer has a lower potential as compared with the potential of the first magnetic layer is smaller than change in a magnetic resistance ratio with respect to change in a voltage applied in such a manner that the second magnetic layer has a higher potential as compared with the potential of the first magnetic layer. Voltage is applied to the magnetic tunnel device in such a manner that the potential of the second magnetic layer is lower than that of the first magnetic layer so that dependency of the magnetic resistance ratio on the voltage is reduced. Thus, a stable tunnel current flows.