SPIN-VALVE MEMORY ELEMENTS USING [(CO-PT/CU/NI-FE-CO)/CU] MULTILAYERS

被引:20
作者
IRIE, Y
SAKAKIMA, H
SATOMI, M
KAWAWAKE, Y
机构
[1] Central Research Laboratory, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kyoto, 3-4 Hikaridai, Seikacho Souraku-gun
来源
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 2-LETTERS | 1995年 / 34卷 / 4A期
关键词
MAGNETORESISTANCE; SPIN-VALVE MEMORY; MRAM; CO-PT; CU; NI-FE-CO;
D O I
10.1143/JJAP.34.L415
中图分类号
O59 [应用物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
A new type of magnetoresistive memory using spin-valve multilayers composed of semi-hard magnetic layers and soft magnetic layers separated with nonmagnetic layers was developed. The fabricated memory element was composed of a word line of An film and a magnetoresistive sense line of [(CoPt/Cu/NiFeCo)/Cu](N) multilayers. This spin-valve memory has nonvolatile and nondestructive readout properties.
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页码:L415 / L417
页数:3
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