G11B 5/3909
Arrangements using a magnetic tunnel junction
Official title: {Arrangements using a magnetic tunnel junction}
G11B5/3909 (Arrangements using a magnetic tunnel junction) appears on 1,457 US grants and 1,370 published applications in this corpus.
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By later US patents
- Low resistance magnetic tunnel junction device with bilayer or multilayer tunnel barrier216US 6,347,049 B1International Business Machines Corporation · 2002
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