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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2005
Applicants:
Yoshiyuki Fukumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuhiro Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Katsumi Suemitsu, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/115 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention to provide a new technique to reduce a variation in switching field of a magnetization free layer in a magnetic memory. The magnetic memory according to the present invention includes a magnetization free layer including a ferromagnetic layer having a shape magnetic anisotropy in a first direction and a magnetic strain constant is positive; and a stress inducing structure configured to apply a tensile stress to said magnetization free layer in a same direction as the first direction.