Stabilized magnetic memory cell
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorsJames A. Brug, Thomas C. Anthony, Manoj K. Bhattarcharyya
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Abstract
A stabilized magnetic memory cell including a data storage layer having an interior region and a pair of end regions near a pair of opposing edges of the data storage layer and a stabilizing material that pins a magnetization in the end regions to a predetermined direction. A method for stabilizing a magnetic memory cell includes the steps of applying a magnetic field that rotates a magnetization in a pair of opposing side regions of a data storage layer of the magnetic memory cell toward a predetermined direction and that reduces free poles in a pair of opposing end regions of the magnetic memory cell, thereby reducing the likelihood of unpredictable switching behavior in the end regions.
Claims10
A method for stabilizing a magnetic memory cell, comprising the steps of:
- applying a magnetic field that rotates a magnetization in a pair of opposing end regions of a data storage layer of the magnetic memory cell to reduces free poles in the end regions;
- applying a magnetic field that rotates an orientation of magnetization in an interior region of the data storage layer to a desired direction for a logic state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.