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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. 17, 2018

Filed:

May. 28, 2015
Applicant:

Crocus Technology SA, Grenoble, FR;

Inventor:

Quentin Stainer, Montbonnot-St-Martin, FR;

Assignee:

CROCUS TECHNOLOGY SA, Grenoble, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/161 (2013.01); G11C 11/1673 (2013.01); G11C 11/1675 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multibit MRAM cell including a magnetic tunnel junction including a sense layer having a freely orientable sense magnetization; a tunnel barrier layer; and a synthetic antiferromagnet storage layer having a first and second storage layer. The sense magnetization induces a dipolar field having a magnitude above a spin-flop field of the storage layer. The MRAM cell also includes aligning means for aligning the sense magnetization in a plurality of distinct orientations such as to encode a plurality of distinct logic states in the MRAM cell. The present disclosure also concerns a method for operating the multibit MRAM cell.


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