发明名称 |
Method and system for providing magnetic tunneling junctions usable in spin transfer torque magnetic memories |
摘要 |
A method and system provide a magnetic junction. A free layer, a symmetry filter, and a pinned layer are provided. The free layer has a magnetic moment switchable between stable states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction. The symmetry filter transmits charge carriers having a first symmetry with higher probability than charge carriers having another symmetry. The symmetry filter resides between the free layer and the pinned layer. The free layer and/or the pinned layer lies in a plane, has the charge carriers of the first symmetry in a spin channel at a Fermi level, lacks the charge carriers of the first symmetry at the Fermi level in another spin channel, and has a nonzero magnetic moment component perpendicular to the plane. The free layer and/or the pinned layer and the symmetry filter has at least one lattice mismatch of less than seven percent. |
申请公布号 |
US9130151(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2015.09.08 |
申请号 |
US201213549331 |
申请日期 |
2012.07.13 |
申请人 |
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. |
发明人 |
Butler William H. |
分类号 |
G11C11/00;H01L43/08;B82Y25/00;B82Y40/00;H01F10/32;H01F41/30;H01L43/12;G11C11/16;B82Y20/00;H01F41/32;H01L27/22;H01F10/12 |
主分类号 |
G11C11/00 |
代理机构 |
Convergent Law Group LLP |
代理人 |
Convergent Law Group LLP |
主权项 |
1. A magnetic junction comprising:
a free layer having a first magnetic moment switchable between a plurality of stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction; a symmetry filter that transmits charge carriers having a first symmetry with a higher probability than the charge carriers having a second symmetry; a pinned layer having a second magnetic moment pinned in a particular direction, the symmetry filter residing between the free layer and the pinned layer; wherein at least one of the free layer and the pinned layer has the charge carriers of the first symmetry at a Fermi level in a spin channel, lacks the charge carriers of the first symmetry at the Fermi level in another spin channel, lies substantially in a plane and has a nonzero magnetic moment component substantially perpendicular to the plane, the symmetry filter and at least one of the free layer and the pinned layer having a lattice mismatch of less than seven percent. |
地址 |
Gyeonggi-Do KR |