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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:
Apr. 25, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 24, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

William H. Butler, Tuscaloosa, AL (US);

Kamaram Munira, Tuscaloosa, AL (US);

Roman Chepulskyy, Milpitas, CA (US);

Dmytro Apalkov, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 43/08 (2006.01); H01L 43/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 43/08 (2013.01); H01L 43/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device and a method for providing the magnetic junction are described. The magnetic junction includes a free layer, a reference layer and nonmagnetic spacer layer between the free and reference layers. At least one of the free and reference layers includes at least one Heusler multilayer. Each of the at least one Heusler multilayer includes a plurality of Heusler adjoining layers that at least one interface. The Heusler layers include a plurality of Heusler alloys, have a plurality of lattice parameters and have a plurality of coefficients of thermal expansion. 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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