Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Precessional magnetization reversal in a magnetic tunnel junction with a perpendicular polarizer
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Application No.: US14775442Application Date: 2014-03-14
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Publication No.: US09721631B2Publication Date: 2017-08-01
- Inventor: Andrew Kent , Huanlong Liu
- Applicant: New York University
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2014/028917 WO 20140314
- International Announcement: WO2014/153064 WO 20140925
- Main IPC: G11C11/14
- IPC: G11C11/14 ; G11C11/16 ; H01L43/08

Abstract:
A magnetic device that includes a perpendicular magnetized polarizing layer configured to provide a first spin-torque and an in-plane magnetized free layer having a magnetization vector having at least a first stable state and a second stable state. The magnetic device also includes a reference layer configured to provide a second spin-torque. The first spin-torque and the second spin-torque can combine. The in-plane magnetized free layer and the reference layer form a magnetic tunnel junction and the combined first spin-torque and second spin-torque influences the magnetic state of the in-plane magnetized free layer. An application of a voltage pulse, having either positive or negative polarity and a selected amplitude and duration, through the magnetic device causes the magnetization vector to oscillate between the first stable state and the second stable state for a portion of the duration regardless of an initial state of the magnetization vector.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160035401A1 PRECESSIONAL MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL IN A MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION WITH A PERPENDICULAR POLARIZER Public/Granted day:2016-02-04
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