Parkin et al., 1999 - Google Patents
Exchange-biased magnetic tunnel junctions and application to nonvolatile magnetic random access memoryParkin et al., 1999
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- Author
- Parkin S
- Roche K
- Samant M
- Rice P
- Beyers R
- Scheuerlein R
- O’sullivan E
- Brown S
- Bucchigano J
- Abraham D
- Lu Y
- Rooks M
- Trouilloud P
- Wanner R
- Gallagher W
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- Publication venue
- Journal of Applied Physics
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Exchange biased magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structures are shown to have useful properties for forming magnetic memory storage elements in a novel cross-point architecture. MTJ elements have been developed which exhibit very large magnetoresistive …
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