TW200304143A - Synthetic ferrimagnet reference layer for a magnetic storage device - Google Patents
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Applications Claiming Priority (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| US10/093,344 US6625059B1 (en) | 2002-03-06 | 2002-03-06 | Synthetic ferrimagnet reference layer for a magnetic storage device |
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| TW200304143A true TW200304143A (en) | 2003-09-16 |
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| US (1) | US6625059B1 (enExample) |
| EP (1) | EP1343170A3 (enExample) |
| JP (1) | JP4477829B2 (enExample) |
| KR (1) | KR100978641B1 (enExample) |
| CN (1) | CN100419902C (enExample) |
| TW (1) | TW200304143A (enExample) |
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| US6967350B2 (en) * | 2002-04-02 | 2005-11-22 | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. | Memory structures |
| US7167391B2 (en) * | 2004-02-11 | 2007-01-23 | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. | Multilayer pinned reference layer for a magnetic storage device |
| US7102920B2 (en) * | 2004-03-23 | 2006-09-05 | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. | Soft-reference three conductor magnetic memory storage device |
| US7622784B2 (en) * | 2005-01-10 | 2009-11-24 | International Business Machines Corporation | MRAM device with improved stack structure and offset field for low-power toggle mode writing |
| US20090257168A1 (en) * | 2008-04-11 | 2009-10-15 | Northern Lights Semiconductor Corp. | Apparatus for Storing Electrical Energy |
| KR101598833B1 (ko) * | 2009-12-21 | 2016-03-03 | 삼성전자주식회사 | 자기 메모리 소자 및 그 동작방법 |
| US8890266B2 (en) | 2011-01-31 | 2014-11-18 | Everspin Technologies, Inc. | Fabrication process and layout for magnetic sensor arrays |
| US9583696B2 (en) | 2014-03-12 | 2017-02-28 | Qualcomm Incorporated | Reference layer for perpendicular magnetic anisotropy magnetic tunnel junction |
| US9666215B2 (en) | 2015-10-28 | 2017-05-30 | International Business Machines Corporation | Termination layer-compensated tunneling magnetoresistance in ferrimagnetic Heusler compounds with high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy |
| JP2020042882A (ja) * | 2018-09-12 | 2020-03-19 | キオクシア株式会社 | 磁気メモリ |
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| KR20030074233A (ko) | 2003-09-19 |
| US20030169620A1 (en) | 2003-09-11 |
| EP1343170A3 (en) | 2003-11-19 |
| EP1343170A2 (en) | 2003-09-10 |
| JP4477829B2 (ja) | 2010-06-09 |
| CN100419902C (zh) | 2008-09-17 |
| JP2003272374A (ja) | 2003-09-26 |
| US6625059B1 (en) | 2003-09-23 |
| KR100978641B1 (ko) | 2010-08-27 |
| CN1442861A (zh) | 2003-09-17 |
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