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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2008
Applicants:

Koji Tsunekawa, Kawasaki, JP;

Yoshinori Nagamine, Kawasaki, JP;

Inventors:

Koji Tsunekawa, Kawasaki, JP;

Yoshinori Nagamine, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:

Canon Anelva Corporation, Kawasaki-shi, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/33 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A tunnel magnetoresistive thin film has a high MR ratio and improves heat resistance while maintaining a thin film of a Ru layer used as a non-magnetic layer so that the Ru layer expresses a preferable exchange coupling magnetic field even through annealing is performed at a high temperature. In the tunnel magnetoresistive thin film, at least one of a first pinned magnetic layer and a second pinned magnetic layer that are layered having the non-magnetic layer for exchange coupling therebetween has a layered structure of two or more layers made of magnetic materials different from each other.


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