Thin film magnetic memory elements

Static information storage and retrieval – Systems using particular element – Hall effect

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ABSTRACT:
A magnetic memory element is fabricated from a thin magnetic film wherein the magnetic film is grown on a lattice-matched substrate and subsequently patterned to form a closure domain. The closure domain is comprised of a plurality of legs which are joined at domain walls. The individual legs are patterned in the thin magnetic film to lie parallel to an easy axis of the thin film crystal structure being used. Thus, each closure domain represents a magnetic memory element. Fringing fields about the memory elements are eliminated due to the closure domain design. An array of such closure domains can be grown on a substrate and can be packed to high densities up to the limits of current lithographic technology. Such thin film magnetic memory arrays are non-volatile and are compatible with existing RAMs.

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