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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2005
Magnetic random access memory with stacked memory cells having oppositely-directed hard-axis biasing
Kochan Ju, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Jei-wei Chang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kochan Ju, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Jei-Wei Chang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Maglabs, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A magnetic random access memory (MRAM) has memory stacks arranged in the X-Y plane on the MRAM substrate, with each memory stack having two memory cells stacked along the Z axis and each memory cell having an associated biasing layer. Each biasing layer reduces the switching field of its associated cell by applying a biasing field along the hard-axis of magnetization of the free layer of its associated cell. The free layers in the two cells in each stack have their in-plane easy axes of magnetization aligned parallel to one another. Each biasing layer has its in-plane magnetization direction oriented perpendicular to the easy axis of magnetization (and thus parallel to the hard axis) of the free layer in its associated cell. The hard-axis biasing fields generated by the two biasing layers are in opposite directions.