BOTTOM-PINNED MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY HAVING A COMPOSITE SOT STRUCTURE
An ultra-fast magnetic random access memory (MRAM) comprises a three terminal bottom-pinned composite SOT magnetic tunneling junction (bCSOT-MTJ) element including (counting from top to bottom) a magnetic flux guide (MFG) having a very high magnetic permeability, a spin Hall channel (SHC) having a l...
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Format | Patent |
Language | English |
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21.10.2021
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Summary: | An ultra-fast magnetic random access memory (MRAM) comprises a three terminal bottom-pinned composite SOT magnetic tunneling junction (bCSOT-MTJ) element including (counting from top to bottom) a magnetic flux guide (MFG) having a very high magnetic permeability, a spin Hall channel (SHC) having a large positive spin Hall angle, an in-plane magnetic memory (MM) layer, a tunnel barrier (TB) layer, and a magnetic pinning stack (MPS) having a synthetic antiparallel coupling pinned by an antiferromagnetic material. The magnetic writing is significantly boosted by a combined effort of enhanced spin orbit torque (SOT) and Lorentz force generated by current-flowing wire (CFW) in the SHC layer and spin transfer torque (STT) by a current flowing through the MTJ stack, and further enhanced by a magnetic close loop formed at the cross section of MFG/SHC/MM tri-layer. Such bCSOT-MTJ element will have a very fast (down to picoseconds) switching speed and consume much less power suitable level 1 or 2 cache application for SMRAM, CPU, GPU and TPU. |
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Bibliography: | Application Number: US202016849571 |