Separated vertical channel patterns and surrounding conductive stacks raise 3D memory density while preserving memory string selection and control.
Iridium-containing seed, spacer, and barrier layers suppress metal diffusion into the tunneling barrier and preserve MTJ film structure in MRAM.
A slanted bottom electrode and extended dielectric layer protect the MTJ stack during etching, improving MRAM alignment and switching reliability.
Beveled MTJ layers and encapsulation lower pillar aspect ratio, prevent ILD voids, and reduce top contact shorts in MRAM.
A soft-magnetic shielding layer deflects external fields from the MTJ stack, improving coercivity, durability, and reflow bit error performance.
A seed-backed pinned layer and PMA capping layer help folded SOT MRAM preserve thermal stability, free-layer retention, and TMR.
A multistage MRAM cell process uses dielectric liners and delayed tunnel barrier formation to prevent etch defects, shorts, and write errors.
Nitride regions placed near the insulating layer lower switching current and reversal energy while preserving magnetization stability and MR ratio.
A magnetic memory element uses a thick beta-phase heavy metal layer to generate spin orbit torque for magnetization reversal.
A three-dimensional magnetic device uses spin-orbit torque to reverse magnetization via a heavy metal layer.
PtCr, PtMn, and IrMn composite layers boost exchange coupling magnetic field to resolve thermal stability issues in high-temperature environments.
A chemical mechanical planarization process exposes a magnetic tunnel junction top surface for reliable electrical contact.
Plasma oxidation modifies the dielectric surface to reduce partial shorts and improve manufacturing yields in magnetoresistive memory devices.
A magnetoresistance effect element uses a composite recording layer with non-magnetic insertion layers to enhance interfacial magnetic anisotropy.
An anti-oxidation layer between a metal pattern and magnetic tunnel junction patterns prevents electrical shorts while maintaining high integration density.
A topological insulator and magnetic insulator heterostructure enables voltage-driven magnetization switching via spin accumulation.
Ultra-high vacuum bonding joins two separate magnetic tunnel junction stacks to form a double device with high-quality reference layers.
Metallic ring shunts electrons around the tunnel barrier to lower series resistance in magnetic tunnel junctions.
A magnetic field sensor system encodes rotation data into multiple discrete signal levels for precise angular position tracking.
A magneto electric memory cell look up table uses direct voltage programming to eliminate access transistors.
A reservoir element uses a spin conduction layer to transmit spin currents between ferromagnetic layers for neuromorphic signal processing.
Metallic antiferromagnetic layers generate out-of-plane spin currents via the spin-Hall effect to modulate perpendicular magnetization.
Ionic liquid layer provides hydrogen and oxygen ions to regulate phase transformation states in a transition metal oxide device.
Voltage-driven MESO logic replaces current-based switching to reduce energy consumption and improve reliability while maintaining non-volatile operation.
A perpendicular STTMRAM element uses a segmented free layer structure to enable magnetization switching via spin transfer torque.
A spintronic device transmits spin current via spin-wave propagation in a magnetic dielectric layer.
Ferromagnetic metal layer with damping constant above 0.01 enables rapid spin-orbit torque magnetization rotation.
A magnetic memory device uses a core element to switch free layer magnetization via electrical current through an insulating barrier.
Replacing cobalt with copper in platinum multilayer thin films reduces saturation magnetization while maintaining perpendicular magnetic anisotropy density.
Replacing magnesium oxide with a composite seed layer reduces boron diffusion and pinholes, enhancing tunnel magnetoresistance and thermal stability.
A composite seed structure promotes FCC 111 crystal growth to enhance perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.
Sputtered ultra-thin Hall plates resolve carrier concentration trade-offs to boost magnetic sensing sensitivity.
Replacing expensive non-magnetic metals with ferromagnetic layers reduces material costs while maintaining spin current detection capability.
A RuAl templating spacer layer promotes epitaxial growth of ultrathin bilayer Heusler films at room temperature.
Segmented free layers in a magnetic random access memory element maintain thermal stability while reducing the switching current needed for data retention.
Ultra-thin Hf or Ti insertion layers increase interfacial scattering in spin Hall metals to boost spin current.
A Co-Ir multilayer reference layer provides a stable synthetic antiferromagnetic structure for magnetic random access memory devices.
Low oxygen affinity capping layer prevents retention loss by preserving interfacial hybridization for scaled memory devices.
Chemical templating grows Heusler films with strong perpendicular anisotropy, overcoming thermal instability at sub-20 nm scales.
Segmented potentials in a graphene barrier boost the TMR ratio to 107%, enabling room temperature operation for high-sensitivity sensors.
A charge-carrier Hall-effect sensor uses a ferromagnetic layer to provide a strong perpendicular magnetic field.
A homoepitaxial stack of hydrogenated graphene monolayers acts as a tunnel barrier on pristine graphene channels.
A multi-interface free layer segments magnetic sublayers to stabilize spin states in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions.
Single-phase spinel barriers eliminate boundaries that cause leakage currents.
A magnetically doped topological insulator quantum well film achieves large anomalous Hall resistance through precise chromium and bismuth doping.
Crystallizing a boron-containing ferromagnetic layer using an absorbing layer to improve magnetic characteristics.
Hydrocarbon plasma etches films while oxygen plasma removes carbon deposits without hydrogen to preserve magnetic characteristics.
Ion implantation compensates extrinsic charge carriers in topological insulators, achieving low bulk conductivity for advanced semiconductor devices.
D2d symmetry nano-stripes host elliptical skyrmions and antiskyrmions for high-speed racetrack memory applications.