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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
May. 06, 2016
Avalanche Technology, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Rajiv Yadav Ranjan, San Jose, CA (US);
Parviz Keshtbod, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Roger Klas Malmhall, San Jose, CA (US);
Avalanche Technology, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a multi-state current-switching magnetic memory element configured to store a state by current flowing therethrough to switch the state including two or more magnetic tunneling junctions (MTJs) coupled in parallel between a top electrode and a bottom electrode. Each MTJ includes a free layer with a switchable magnetic orientation perpendicular to a layer plane thereof, a fixed layer with a fixed magnetic orientation perpendicular to a layer plane thereof, and a barrier layer interposed between the free layer and the fixed layer. The magnetic memory element is operable to store more than one bit of information.