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Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 17, 2017
Applicant:

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, TW;

Inventors:

Chih-Huang Lai, Hsinchu, TW;

Ming-Han Tsai, Hsinchu, TW;

Kuo-Feng Huang, Hsinchu, TW;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/16 (2006.01); G11C 11/18 (2006.01); H01L 43/08 (2006.01); H01L 43/02 (2006.01); H01L 43/04 (2006.01); H01L 27/22 (2006.01); H01L 43/10 (2006.01); H01L 43/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/222 (2013.01); G11C 11/161 (2013.01); G11C 11/18 (2013.01); H01L 43/04 (2013.01); H01L 43/10 (2013.01); H01L 43/06 (2013.01); H01L 43/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A spin-orbit torque magnetic random access memory includes a substrate, and an SOT memory cell disposed on the substrate and including a magnetic free layer including a ferromagnetic first metal layer, an anti-ferromagnetic second metal layer, and a third metal layer for generating spin-Hall effect. The first metal layer has a thickness ranging from 0.5 nm to 1.5 nm and exhibits perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). The second metal layer has a thickness greater than 6 nm for providing an exchange bias field. The second metal layer is an IrMn layer not undergone out-of-plane magnetic annealing or coating and exhibiting no PMA. The magnetic free layer has a coercive magnetic field (H) upon reaching the critical current density, and |H|>|H|.


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