A method for providing a magnetic device and the magnetic device so provided are described. The magnetic device includes a magnetic layer having a surface. In some aspects, the magnetic layer is a free layer, a reference layer, or a top layer thereof. A tunneling barrier layer is deposited on the magnetic layer. At least a portion of the tunneling barrier layer adjacent to the magnetic layer is deposited at a deposition angle of at least thirty degrees from a normal to the surface of the magnetic layer. In some aspects, the deposition angle is at least fifty degrees.

A memory system may include a magnetic tunnel junction stack, a first high resistance tunnel barrier, and a first voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy write layer. The first voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy write layer may be adjacent the high resistance tunnel barrier, and the voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy write line may include a magnetic material in direct contact with a high resistance tunnel barrier.

A magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) structure comprises a pinned layer on a bottom electrode. a barrier layer on the pinned layer, wherein a second metal re-deposition layer is on sidewalls of the barrier layer and the pinned layer, a free layer on the barrier layer wherein the free layer has a first width smaller than a second width of the pinned layer, a top electrode on the free layer having a same first width as the free layer wherein a first metal re-deposition layer is on sidewalls of the free layer and top electrode, and dielectric spacers on sidewalls of the free layer and top electrode covering the first metal re-deposition layer wherein the free layer and the top electrode together with the dielectric spacers have a same the second width as the pinned layer wherein the dielectric spacers prevent shorting between the first and second metal re-deposition layers.

A memory device, an integrated circuit component including an array of the memory devices, and an integrated device assembly including the integrated circuit component. The memory devices includes a first electrode; a second electrode including an antiferromagnetic (AFM) material; and a memory stack including: a first layer adjacent the second electrode and including a multilayer stack of adjacent layers comprising ferromagnetic materials; a second layer adjacent the first layer; and a third layer adjacent the second layer at one side thereof, and adjacent the first electrode at another side thereof, the second layer between the first layer and the third layer, the third layer including a ferromagnetic material. The memory device may correspond to a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) magnetic random access memory bit cell, and the memory stack may correspond to a MTJ device.

Damascene-based approaches for embedding spin hall MTJ devices into a logic processor, and the resulting structures, are described. In an example, a logic processor includes a logic region including a metallization layer. The logic processor also includes a memory array including a plurality of two-transistor one magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) spin hall effect electrode (2T-1MTJ SHE electrode) bit cells. The spin hall effect electrodes of the 2T-1MTJ SHE electrode bit cells are disposed in a lower dielectric layer laterally adjacent to the metallization layer of the logic region. The MTJs of the 2T-1MTJ SHE electrode bit cells are disposed in an upper dielectric layer laterally adjacent to the metallization layer of the logic region.

A magnetic domain wall movement type magnetic recording element includes: a first ferromagnetic layer which includes a ferromagnetic body; a non-magnetic layer which faces the first ferromagnetic layer; and a magnetic recording layer which faces a surface of the non-magnetic layer on a side opposite to the first ferromagnetic layer and extends in a first direction. The magnetic recording layer has a concave-convex structure on a second surface opposite to a first surface which faces the non-magnetic layer.

The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a memory device surrounded by a dielectric structure disposed over a substrate. The memory device includes a data storage structure disposed between a bottom electrode and a top electrode. A top electrode via couples the top electrode to an upper interconnect wire. A first line is tangent to a first outermost sidewall of the top electrode via and a second line is tangent to an opposing second outermost sidewall of the top electrode via. The first line is oriented at a first angle with respect to a horizontal plane that is parallel to an upper surface of the substrate and the second line is oriented at a second angle with respect to the horizontal plane. The second angle is less than the first angle.

This spin element includes: a current-carrying part that extends in a first direction; and an element part that is laminated on one surface of the current-carrying part, wherein the current-carrying part includes a first wiring and a second wiring in order from a side of the element part, and wherein both of the first wiring and the second wiring are metals and temperature dependence of resistivity of the first wiring is larger than temperature dependence of resistivity of the second wiring in at least a temperature range of −40° C. to 100° C.

Embodiments of the present invention include multiple independent terminals for a plurality of devices in a stack configuration within a semiconductor. In one embodiment, a multi terminal fabrication process comprises: performing an initial pillar layer formation process to create layers of a multi terminal stack; forming a first device in the layers of the multi terminal stack; forming a second device in the layers of the multi terminal stack; and constructing a set of terminals comprising: a first terminal coupled to the first device, a second terminal coupled to the second device; and a third terminal coupled to the first device; wherein at least two terminals in the set of terminals are independent. The third terminal can be coupled to the second device.

Example implementations are concerned with magnetoresistive sensors and with corresponding fabrication methods for magnetoresistive sensors. One example here relates to a magnetoresistive sensor having a layer stack. The layer stack comprises a reference layer having a reference magnetization, which is fixed and has a first magnetic orientation. The layer stack comprises a magnetically free layer. The magnetically free layer has a magnetically free magnetization. The magnetically free magnetization is variable in the presence of an external magnetic field. The magnetically free magnetization has a second magnetic orientation in a ground state. One of the first or the second magnetic orientation is oriented in-plane and the other is oriented out-of-plane. The layer stack comprises a metal multilayer. In this case, either the metal multilayer is arranged adjacent to the magnetically free layer, or the metal multilayer constitutes the magnetically free layer.