Switching of perpendicularly magnetized nanomagnets with spin-orbit torques in the absence of external magnetic fields

    公开(公告)号:US11594357B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-28

    申请号:US16850173

    申请日:2020-04-16

    摘要: A base element for switching a magnetization state of a nanomagnet includes a heavy-metal nanostrip having a surface. The heavy-metal nanostrip includes at least a first layer including a heavy metal and a second layer which includes a different heavy-metal. A ferromagnetic nanomagnet is disposed adjacent to the surface. The ferromagnetic nanomagnet includes a shape having a long axis and a short axis, the ferromagnetic nanomagnet having both a perpendicular-to-the-plane anisotropy Hkz and an in-plane anisotropy Hkx and the ferromagnetic nanomagnet having a first magnetization equilibrium state and a second magnetization equilibrium state. The first magnetization equilibrium state or the second magnetization equilibrium state is settable by a flow of electrical charge through the heavy-metal nanostrip. A direction of the flow of electrical charge through the heavy-metal nanostrip includes an angle ξ with respect to the short axis of the nanomagnet.

    Methods of forming magnetoresistive devices and integrated circuits

    公开(公告)号:US11482570B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-25

    申请号:US17134865

    申请日:2020-12-28

    摘要: Magnetoresistive device architectures and methods for manufacturing are presented that facilitate integration of process steps associated with forming such devices into standard process flows used for surrounding logic/circuitry. In some embodiments, the magnetoresistive device structures are designed such that the devices are able to fit within the vertical dimensions of the integrated circuit associated with a single metal layer and a single layer of interlayer dielectric material. Integrating the processing for the magnetoresistive devices can include using the same standard interlayer dielectric material as used in the surrounding circuits on the integrated circuit as well as using standard vias to interconnect to at least one of the electrodes of the magnetoresistive devices.

    Three-dimensional magnetic field detection element and three-dimensional magnetic field detection device

    公开(公告)号:US11009566B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-18

    申请号:US16439699

    申请日:2019-06-13

    发明人: Yoshinobu Honkura

    IPC分类号: G01R33/02 H01L43/00 A61M25/01

    摘要: The invention relates to a three-dimensional magnetic field detection device (1) which comprises three soft-magnetic bodies (21, 22) and a magnetic field detection element (3, 12, 13, 14) comprising three GSR elements. For three axial directions that are orthogonal to each other at an origin point that is the center point of measurement, the invention measures, for a first axial direction, a first-axial-direction magnetic field using two elements sandwiching the origin point, measures, for a second axial direction, a second-axial-direction magnetic field through disposing one element at the position of the origin point, and measures, for a third axial direction, a third-axial-direction magnetic field through combining the two elements for the first axial direction and the three soft-magnetic bodies and forming two crank-shaped magnetic circuits having point symmetry.

    Lattice matched tunnel barriers for perpendicularly magnetized Heusler alloys

    公开(公告)号:US10770649B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-08

    申请号:US16281642

    申请日:2019-02-21

    发明人: Aakash Pushp

    摘要: A device comprising a first magnetic layer (e.g., Co2MnSi Heusler alloy or a tetragonally distorted perpendicularly magnetized (PMA) Heusler alloy such as Mn3Ga, Mn3Ge, etc.) and a second magnetic layer (e.g., Co2MnSi Heusler alloy or a tetragonally distorted perpendicularly magnetized (PMA) Heusler alloy such as Mn3Ga, Mn3Ge, etc.), and a metal halide tunnel barrier in between the first and second magnetic layers, wherein the metal halide tunnel barrier (e.g., NaF, NaCl, NaBr, LiF, LiCl, and LiBr or their combination) is lattice matched within a predetermined limit (e.g. 5%) of both the first and second magnetic layers.