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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:
Dec. 01, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 07, 2014
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Dmytro Apalkov, San Jose, CA (US);

Vladimir Nikitin, Campbell, CA (US);

Alexey Vasilyevitch Khvalkovskiy, Milpitas, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 43/12 (2006.01); H01L 43/08 (2006.01); H01L 27/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 43/12 (2013.01); H01L 43/08 (2013.01); H01L 27/228 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for providing a magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device are described. The magnetic includes a pinned layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer, a free layer, and package structure(s). The pinned layer has a pinned layer perimeter and a top surface. The nonmagnetic spacer layer is on at least part of the top surface and between the pinned and free layers. The free layer has a free layer perimeter. The package structure(s) are ferromagnetic and encircles at least one of the free layer and the pinned layer. The package structure(s) are ferromagnetically coupled with the pinned layer. The magnetic junction is configured such that the free layer is switchable between stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction.


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