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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:
Jan. 17, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 16, 2015
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kaan Oguz, Dublin, IE;

Mark L. Doczy, Portland, OR (US);

Brian Doyle, Portland, OR (US);

Uday Shah, Portland, OR (US);

David L. Kencke, Beaverton, OR (US);

Roksana Golizadeh Mojarad, San Jose, CA (US);

Robert S. Chau, Beaverton, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 43/02 (2006.01); H01L 43/08 (2006.01); H01L 43/12 (2006.01); H01L 43/10 (2006.01); G11C 11/16 (2006.01); H01F 10/193 (2006.01); H01F 10/32 (2006.01); H01L 27/22 (2006.01); H01L 29/82 (2006.01); H01F 41/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 43/02 (2013.01); H01L 43/08 (2013.01); H01L 43/10 (2013.01); H01L 43/12 (2013.01); G11C 11/16 (2013.01); H01F 10/1933 (2013.01); H01F 10/3254 (2013.01); H01F 10/3286 (2013.01); H01F 41/325 (2013.01); H01L 27/226 (2013.01); H01L 27/228 (2013.01); H01L 29/82 (2013.01);
Abstract

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) suitable for spin transfer torque memory (STTM) devices, include perpendicular magnetic layers and one or more anisotropy enhancing layer(s) separated from a free magnetic layer by a crystallization barrier layer. In embodiments, an anisotropy enhancing layer improves perpendicular orientation of the free magnetic layer while the crystallization barrier improves tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) ratio with better alignment of crystalline texture of the free magnetic layer with that of a tunneling layer.


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