Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electric field controlled magnetoresistive random-access memory
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Application No.: US15930892Application Date: 2020-05-13
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Publication No.: US11706994B2Publication Date: 2023-07-18
- Inventor: Byoung-Chul Min , Jun Woo Choi , Hee Gyum Park
- Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: Mendelsohn Dunleavy, P.C.
- Priority: KR 20190063575 2019.05.30
- Main IPC: H10N50/80
- IPC: H10N50/80 ; H10B61/00 ; H10N50/85

Abstract:
Disclosed is an electric field-controlled magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) including memory cells. The memory cell has a heterogenous double tunnel junction structure including a first tunnel junction and a second tunnel junction. The first tunnel junction includes a magnetic tunnel junction layer having a magnetization direction that changes according to spin transfer torque when an external voltage is applied, and the second tunnel junction includes an electric-field control layer that controls an electric field applied to the magnetic tunnel junction layer to induce a change in magnetic anisotropy within the magnetic tunnel junction layer. The heterogeneous tunnel junction structure combines electric field-controlled magnetic anisotropy and spin transfer torque to enable low power driving of memory cells, thereby enabling a high energy-efficient electric field-controlled MRAM.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200381614A1 ELECTRIC FIELD CONTROLLED MAGNETORESISTIVE RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY Public/Granted day:2020-12-03
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