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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/100 ;
Abstract
A magnetoresistive device has a first magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer, with the nonmagnetic layer being interposed between the first and second magnetic layers, the first and second magnetic layers having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Either the first magnetic layer or the second magnetic layer is made of a ferrimagnetic that has a compensation point around a room temperature.