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The output voltage of an MRAM is increased by means of an Fe(001)/MgO(001)/Fe(001) MTJ device, which is formed by microfabrication of a sample prepared by the following steps. A single-crystalline MgO(001) substrate 11 is prepared. An epitaxial Fe(001) lower electrode (a first electrode) 17 with the thickness of 50 nm is grown on a MgO(001) seed layer 15 at room temperature, followed by annealing under ultrahigh vacuum (2×10⁻⁸ Pa) and at 350° C. A MgO(001) barrier layer 21 with the thickness of 2 nm is epitaxially formed on the Fe(001) lower electrode (the first electrode) at room temperature, using a MgO electron-beam evaporation. A Fe(001) upper electrode (a second electrode) with the thickness of 10 nm is then formed on the MgO(001) barrier layer 21 at room temperature. This is successively followed by the deposition of a Co layer 21 with the thickness of 10 nm on the Fe(001) upper electrode (the second electrode) 23. The Co layer 21 is provided so as to increase the coercive force of the upper electrode 23 in order to realize an antiparallel magnetization alignment.

The present invention provides a compact electron lens causing little aberration, and a charged particle beam apparatus such as a scanning electron microscope that is super compact and offers a high resolution. An upper magnetic pole and a sample-side magnetic pole are magnetically coupled to the respective poles of a permanent magnet that is made of a highly strong magnetic material such as a rare-earth cobalt system or a neodymium-iron-boron system, that is axially symmetrical, and that has a hole in the center thereof. An inner gap is created on the side of a center axis. Thus, a magnetic lens is formed axially. Moreover, a semi-stationary magnetic path that shields an outside magnetic field and has the magnetic reluctance thereof regulated is disposed outside. The sample-side magnetic pole and magnetic path defines a region where magnetic reluctance is the highest outside the permanent magnet. A space defined by the permanent magnet, upper magnetic pole, sample-die magnetic pole, and semi-stationary magnetic path is filled with a filling made of a non-magnetic material. Thus, an objective lens is constructed.

A method of removing a damaged magnetic layer at the sidewall of MTJ edge is provided to form damage-free MRAM cell. In this method, the MTJ film stack outside the Ta hard mask protected area is first etched by high-power magnetic reactive ion etch (RIE) using methanol (CH3OH) or Co & NH3 as etchant gases. Then a very mild chemical vapor trimming (CVT) process is used to remove a damaged layer (by the high power RIE) from the MTJ sidewall followed by an in-situ edge passivation with Si nitride (SiN) layer formed by PECVD. The MRAM cell formed by such method will have higher magnetoresistance with good device performance and better reliability.

A single-crystalline MgO (001) substrate 11 is prepared, and then an epitaxial Fe (001) lower electrode (first electrode) 17 with a thickness of 50 nm is grown on a MgO (001) seed layer 15 at room temperature. Annealing is then performed in ultrahigh vacuum (2×10⁻⁸ Pa) at 350° C. A 2-nm thick MgO (001) barrier layer 21 is epitaxially grown on the Fe (001) lower electrode (first electrode) 17 at room temperature, using electron beam evaporation of MgO. A Fe (001) upper electrode (second electrode) 23 with a thickness of 10 nm is then grown on the MgO (001) barrier layer 21 at room temperature, successively followed by the deposition of a IrMn layer 25 with a thickness of 10 nm on the Fe (001) upper electrode (second electrode) 23. The IrMn layer 25 is used for realizing an antiparallel magnetization alignment by giving an exchange-biasing field to the upper electrode 23. Thereafter, the above-prepared sample is subjected to microfabrication so as to obtain a Fe (001)/MgO (001)/Fe (001) MTJ device with an enhanced MR ratio.

A magnetomotive device has an embedded electromagnetic coil formed of multiple printed conductor segments on multiple lamina of a multilayer PCB. A shaft extends through an opening in the PCB, and a permanent magnet with axially opposed poles is secured to the shaft. Energizing the embedded electromagnet generates a magnetic field that attracts or repels the permanent magnet, driving the shaft to do useful work. A pair of embedded PCB coils may be employed, the shaft extending through both coils with the permanent magnet disposed therebetween, and the coils energized so that one repels the permanent magnet while the other attracts it, and the shaft may be driven reversibly to do useful work.

A cobalt iron hafnium oxide (CoFeHfO) layer is employed in a pinned layer structure of a top or bottom simple pinned or antiparallel (AP) pinned spin valve sensor for increasing a demagnetization field from the pinned layer structure which will improve biasing of a free layer structure in the spin valve sensor with minimal shunting of the sense current IS through the spin valve sensor because of its high resistance. The demagnetization field from the pinned layer structure opposes a typically high sense current field due to the sense current so as to zero bias the spin valve sensor with a magnetic moment of the free layer structure oriented parallel to an air bearing surface of the sensor. The cobalt iron (CoFe) content in the cobalt iron hafnium oxide (CoFeHfO) layer increases the magnetoresistance of the sense current due to its proximity to the spacer layer and the oxygen content in the layer causes specular reflection of conduction electrons through the sensor for still further increasing the magnetoresistance.

The MR ratio of an MTJ device is increased. A single-crystalline MgO (001) substrate 11 is prepared, and then an epitaxial Fe (001) lower electrode (first electrode) 17 with a thickness of 50 nm is grown on a MgO (001) seed layer 15 at room temperature. Annealing is then performed in ultrahigh vacuum (2×10⁻⁸ Pa) at 350° C. A 2-nm thick MgO (001) barrier layer 21 is epitaxially grown on the Fe (001) lower electrode (first electrode) 17 at room temperature, using electron beam evaporation of MgO. A Fe (001) upper electrode (second electrode) 23 with a thickness of 10 nm is then grown on the MgO (001) barrier layer 21 at room temperature, which is successively followed by the deposition of a Co layer 21 with a thickness of 10 nm on the Fe (001) upper electrode (second electrode) 23. The Co layer 21 is used for realizing an antiparallel magnetization alignment by enhancing an exchange bias magnetic field of the upper electrode 23. Thereafter, the above-prepared sample is subjected to microfabrication so as to obtain a Fe (001)/MgO (001)/Fe (001) MTJ device. The density of dislocation defects that exist at the interface between one of the first or the second Fe (001) layer and the single-crystalline MgO (001) layer is not more than 25 to 50 defects/μm.

It is an object of the present invention to provide techniques for improving efficiency and torque of a motor while achieving thinning of the motor. In a brushless DC motor, a rotor includes a magnetic-field creating magnet and a stator includes an armature winding. The magnetic-field creating magnet and the armature winding are placed to locally face in a radial direction orthogonal to an axial direction. This reduces a thickness of the brushless DC motor which extends in the axial direction. Also, a short-circuit yoke plate for joining and magnetically short-circuiting the north pole and the south pole of a permanent magnet is placed on a negative side in the axial direction with respect to the magnetic-field creating magnet. By provision of the short-circuit yoke plate, a magnetic path on a negative side in the axial direction with respect to the magnetic-field creating magnet can be shortened. Accordingly, magnetic reluctance occurring during rotational movement of the brushless DC motor can be reduced, to thereby improve efficiency and torque of the brushless DC motor.

The invention discloses a high torque density magnetic field modulation type magnetic gear, which comprises a permanent magnetic outer stator, a modulation rotor and a permanent magnetic inner rotor which are concentrically nested to one another and arranged sequentially from outside to inside; air gaps are formed between the permanent magnetic outer stator and the modulation rotor as well as between the modulation rotor and the permanent magnetic inner rotor respectively; a trapezoidal groove is formed in the inner surface of an outer stator iron core of the permanent magnetic outer stator; demagnetization inhibition grooves are formed in the two sides of the inner end of the trapezoidal groove respectively; a tangentially polarized inverted trapezoidal outer stator permanent magnet is embedded in the trapezoidal groove; the demagnetization inhibition grooves have the action of inhibiting local demagnetization of the outer stator permanent magnet; the modulation rotor is composed of a plurality of magnet regulating yokes and a plurality of non-magnetic conductive materials embedded with punched holes respectively; the non-magnetic conductive materials embedded with the punched holes are embedded between two adjacent magnet regulating yokes respectively; the permanent magnetic inner rotor is composed of inner rotor permanent magnets and an inner rotor iron core which are concentrically nested to one another sequentially from outside to inside; and the inner rotor permanent magnets have a simplified Halbach structure. According to the magnetic field modulation type magnetic gear provided by the invention, higher torque density is realized under low torque ripples.

A spin-valve type magnetic head which has sufficiently high output is provided. In one embodiment, a structure in which high output coexists with high stability is achieved by letting a GMR-effect and a current-path-confinement effect manifest themselves at the same time in a GMR-screen layer consisting of a ferromagnetic metal spike-like part and a half-covering oxide layer.

A current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) magnetoresistive sensor has an antiparallel free (APF) structure as the free layer and a specific direction for the applied bias or sense current. The (APF) structure has a first free ferromagnetic (FL1), a second free ferromagnetic layer (FL2), and an antiparallel (AP) coupling (APC) layer that couples FL1 and FL2 together antiferromagnetically with the result that FL1 and FL2 have substantially antiparallel magnetization directions and rotate together in the presence of a magnetic field. The thicknesses of FL1 and FL2 are chosen to obtain the desired net free layer magnetic moment/area for the sensor, and the thickness of FL1 is preferably chosen to be greater than the spin-diffusion length of the electrons in the FL1 material to maximize the bulk spin-dependent scattering of electrons and thus maximize the sensor signal. The CPP sensor operates specifically with the conventional sense current (opposite the electron current) directed from the pinned ferromagnetic layer to the APF structure, which results in suppression of current-induced noise.

A bulk amorphous metal inductive device comprises a magnetic core having plurality of low-loss bulk ferromagnetic amorphous metal magnetic components assembled in juxtaposed relationship to form at least one magnetic circuit and secured in position, e.g. by banding or potting. The device has one or more electrical windings and may be used as a transformer or inductor in an electronic circuit. Each component comprises a plurality of similarly shaped layers of amorphous metal strips bonded together to form a polyhedrally shaped part. The low core losses of the device, e.g. a loss of at most about 12 W/kg when excited at a frequency of 5 kHz to a peak induction level of 0.3 T, make it especially useful for application in power conditioning circuits operating in switched mode at frequencies of 1 kHz or more. Air gaps are optionally interposed between the mating faces of the constituent components of the device to enhance its energy storage capacity for inductor applications. The inductive device is easily customized for specialized magnetic applications, e.g. for use as a transformer or inductor in power conditioning electronic circuitry employing switch-mode circuit topologies and switching frequencies ranging from 1 kHz to 200 kHz or more.

The purpose of this invention is to obtain a permanent magnet embedded type rotating electric machine in which the amount of magnetic flux of a permanent magnet can be prevented from reducing and the permanent magnet can be effectively cooled. In the permanent magnet embedded type rotating electric machine, a rotor (15) has: a rotor iron core (17) constructed by laminating and integrating magnetic steel sheets and firmly fixed to a shaft; a plurality of magnet housing openings (20) each formed so as to penetrate in an axial direction on the outer circumferential side of the rotor iron core (17) and disposed in a circumferential direction; and permanent magnets (21) housed in the respective magnet housing openings (20). An adhesive agent (22) is disposed only between the outside wall surface (20a) of the inner wall surfaces of each of the magnet housing openings (20), which is positioned outward in the radial direction, and the outside surface (21a) of the surfaces of each of the permanent magnets (21), which is positioned outward in the radial direction. The permanent magnets (21) are each disposed one-sided to the outside wall surface (20a) of each of the magnet housing openings (20) and fixed. A cooling flow path (23) through which a refrigerant flows is constituted by the inside surface (21b) of the surfaces of each of the permanent magnets (21), which is positioned inward in the radial direction, and the inside wall surface (20b) of the inner wall surfaces of each of the magnet housing openings (20), which is positioned inward in the radial direction.

A rotor of a rotating electric machine includes a field core having a cylindrical boss portion, and a plurality of claw-shaped magnetic pole portions that are arranged on the outer side of the boss portion and form poles of alternately different polarities in the circumferential direction, a field winding that is wound around the outer periphery of the boss portion and generates a magnetomotive force by energization, a permanent magnet disposed between the circumferentially adjacent claw-shaped magnetic pole portions so as to have its easy axis of magnetization oriented in the circumferential direction and have its polarity coincide with the polarity of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions which alternately appears by excitation, and a magnetic flux short circuit member having a short circuit portion that magnetically connects the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions circumferentially arranged to have different polarities.

An amorphous magnetic component for use in a high-power, high-speed electric motor, in which amorphous metal materials are powdered, compressed, and molded, to be easily molded into magnetic components of a complex shape, and crystalline metal powder of excellent soft magnetic properties is added to the amorphous alloy powder, to promote improvement of a magnetic permeability and improvement of a packing density at the time of compression molding. A method of manufacturing the amorphous magnetic component; includes the steps of: pulverizing ribbons or strips of amorphous alloys to obtain plate-shaped amorphous alloy powder; classifying the amorphous alloy powder, and mixing the amorphous alloy powder with spherical soft magnetic powder, in order to improve magnetic permeability and packing density, to obtain mixed powder; mixing the mixed powder with a binder, to be molded into a shape of the magnetic components; and sintering the molded magnetic components to implement magnetic properties.

The invention discloses a planar transformer which comprises a magnetic core and a coil winding; the magnetic core comprises a top plate, a bottom plate, a middle column and two edge columns, the middle column and the two edge columns are located between the top plate and the bottom plate, the coil winding and the magnetic core are assembled together, the top plate and the bottom plate are composed of a whole magnetic block or formed by laying and splicing a plurality of unit magnetic block bodies, and the middle column and the edge columns are formed by stacking multiple unit magnetic block bodies; each unit magnetic block body is a flat strip-shaped block body, and a preset gap is formed between the two ends of the two adjacent unit magnetic block bodies which are laid and spliced. The whole magnetic core is formed by piling multiple unit magnetic block bodies, the transformer can still maintain high efficiency under high frequency, the unit magnetic block body is the flat strip-shaped block body, it is convenient to produce the magnetic core, it is beneficial to miniaturization and planarizartion, and a piled production mode is more beneficial to automated generation; the preset gap is formed between the two ends of the two adjacent unit magnetic block bodies which are laid and spliced, magnetic resistance between every two unit magnetic block bodies is increased, an edge magnetic line can be drawn close to the magnetic core, and thus diffusion flux is reduced.

The invention discloses fractional-slot concentrated winding permanent magnet synchronous motor and a design method thereof for improving reluctance torque. The fractional-slot concentrated winding permanent magnet synchronous motor comprises a stator and a rotor, wherein the stator is slotted along the peripheral direction to form fault-tolerant teeth and armature teeth arranged alternately; an armature winding is wound on the armature teeth, the fault-tolerant teeth and the armature teeth are different in widths, and the widths of the armature teeth are wider than those of the fault-tolerantteeth; the rotor consists of a permanent magnet, a rotor core and a magnetic obstacle, the permanent magnet is a double-layer permanent magnet, the rotor core is composed of a plurality of independent units, and during machining, the rotor is wrapped with a non-metal material to form a compact structure. The rotor core is segmented along the axis pole direction of the permanent magnet, and the width of the upper part of the magnetic obstacle during segmentation is narrower than that of the lower part. The permanent magnet synchronous motor has the advantages that the direct-axis inductance can be reduced through the special magnetic obstacle design, the influence on quadrature axis inductance can also be reduced as much as possible, and the subharmonic of the motor is free of obvious inhibition. Therefore, the reluctance torque of the motor can be improved effectively, and the iron loss and eddy-current loss of the motor are reduced.

The invention discloses a synchronous reluctance motor rotor applied to a hybrid power system. The synchronous reluctance motor rotor applied to the hybrid power system comprises a rotor core and magnetic steel. The rotor core is formed by rotor punching sheets in an overlying mode. Each rotor punching sheet comprises a plurality of symmetrical magnetic poles, and the polarities of every two adjacent magnetic poles are opposite. Each magnetic pole comprises a plurality of layers of grids, wherein the magnetic steel is placed in the grids. Grooves are formed in the excircle of the rotor in the straight axes in the direction facing the circle center of the rotor.