Magnetic tunnel junction device with improved fixed and free fer

Details Magnetic tunnel junction device with improved fixed and free fer Magnetic tunnel junction device with improved fixed and free fer

1997-10-07

1999-10-12

Patidar, Jay

Electricity: measuring and testing

Magnetic

Magnetometers

360113, 365171, 365173, 365158, G01R 3302, G11C 1115

Patent

active

059660120

ABSTRACT:
An improved magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device for use in a magnetic recording read head or in a magnetic memory storage cell is comprised of two ferromagnetic layers, a "hard" or "fixed" ferromagnetic layer and a sensing or "free" ferromagnetic layer, which are separated by a thin insulating tunneling layer. Each of the ferromagnetic layers is a multilayer formed from two thinner ferromagnetic films coupled antiferromagnetically to one another across a thin antiferromagnetically coupling film. The antiferromagnetically coupling film is chosen, with regard to material composition and thickness, so that it causes the two ferromagnetic films which sandwich it to have their magnetic moments arranged antiparallel to one other in the absence of external magnetic fields. The magnetic moments of the fixed ferromagnetic multilayer and free ferromagnetic layer can be chosen to be arbitrarily small by making the two ferromagnetic films comprising each of them to have substantially the same magnetic moment. Thus the dipole fields from each of the fixed and free ferromagnetic multilayers can be minimized, thereby reducing the magnetic interaction between the fixed ferromagnetic multilayer and the free ferromagnetic multilayer.

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