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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2014
Applicants:
Keiji Hosotani, Seoul, KR;
Sumio Ikegawa, Seoul, KR;
Tatsuya Kishi, Seongnam-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/82 (2006.01); H01L 43/02 (2006.01); H01L 43/08 (2006.01); H01L 43/12 (2006.01); H01L 27/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 43/02 (2013.01); H01L 27/222 (2013.01); H01L 43/08 (2013.01); H01L 43/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device comprises a memory cell array. The memory cell array has a plurality of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) elements. Each of the MTJ elements has a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer and a non-magnetic layer therebetween, and a hard mask layer is arranged above the second magnetic layer. The plurality of MTJ elements have a first MTJ element having a first hard mask layer and a second MTJ element having a second hard mask layer, and a dimension of, the first hard mask layer is greater than that of the second hard mask layer.