A magnetic memory device includes a conductive line extending in a first direction, a magnetic line extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction on the conductive line, the magnetic line intersecting the conductive line, and a magnetic pattern disposed between the conductive line and the magnetic line. The magnetic pattern has first sidewalls opposite to each other in the first direction, and second sidewalls opposite to each other in the second direction. The second sidewalls of the magnetic pattern are aligned with sidewalls of the conductive line, respectively.

A memory device comprises an interconnect comprises a spin orbit coupling (SOC) material. A free magnetic layer is on the interconnect, a barrier material is over the free magnetic layer and a fixed magnetic layer is over the barrier material, wherein the free magnetic layer comprises an antiferromagnet. In another embodiment, memory device comprises a spin orbit coupling (SOC) interconnect and an antiferromagnet (AFM) free magnetic layer is on the interconnect. A ferromagnetic magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device is on the AFM free magnetic layer, wherein the ferromagnetic MTJ comprises a free magnet layer, a fixed magnet layer, and a barrier material between the free magnet layer and the fixed magnet layer.

This optical device includes at least one magnetic element including a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a spacer layer sandwiched between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, a laser diode, and a waveguide, in which the waveguide includes at least one input waveguide optically connected to the laser diode and an output waveguide connected to the input waveguide, and at least some of light propagating in at least one of the input waveguide and the output waveguide is applied to the magnetic element.

The magnetic sensor can prevent an increase of a positional detection error of a subject/object even in the case of applying an external magnetic field with a magnetic field intensity exceeding a predetermined range. A magnetic sensor is equipped with a magnetoresistive effect element (MR element) 11 that can detect an external magnetic field and a soft magnetic body shield 12. The soft magnetic body shield(s) 12 are/is positioned above and/or below the MR element 11 in a side view, and the size of the MR element 11 is physically included within a perimeter of the soft magnetic body shield 12.

The present invention relates to a kind of magnetic heterojunction structure and the method of controlling and achieving spin logic and multiple-state storage functions. The said single magnetic heterojunction structure comprises the substrate, in-plane anti-ferromagnetic layer, in-plane ferromagnetic layer, nonmagnetic layer, vertical ferromagnetic layer, and vertical anti-ferromagnetic layer respectively from the bottom up; the said in-plane ferromagnetic layer and the said vertical ferromagnetic layer are coupled together through the said nonmagnetic layer in the middle; in-plane exchange biases, namely exchange biases in the plane, exist between the said in-plane ferromagnetic layer and the said in-plane anti-ferromagnetic layer, and out-of-plane exchange biases, namely exchange biases out of the plane, exist between the said vertical ferromagnetic layer and the said vertical anti-ferromagnetic layer.

Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatus for fabricating magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structures on a substrate for MRAM applications. In one embodiment, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device structure includes a junction structure disposed on a substrate, the junction structure comprising a first ferromagnetic layer and a second ferromagnetic layer sandwiching a tunneling barrier layer, a dielectric capping layer disposed on the junction structure, a metal capping layer disposed on the junction structure, and a top buffer layer disposed on the metal capping layer.

Acoustically mediated pulsed radiation sources, phased arrays incorporating the radiation sources, and methods of using the radiation sources and phased arrays to generate electromagnetic radiation via magnetic dipole emission are provided. The radiation sources are based on a superlattice heterostructure that supports in-phase magnetic dipole emission from a series of magnetic insulator layers disposed along the length of the heterostructure.

The present disclosure relates to a spin-orbit torque-based switching device and a method of fabricating the same. The spin-orbit torque-based switching device of the present disclosure includes a spin torque generating layer provided with a tungsten-vanadium alloy thin film exhibiting perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) characteristics and a magnetization free layer formed on the spin torque generating layer.

This spin current magnetization rotational type magnetoresistive element includes a magnetoresistive effect element having a first ferromagnetic metal layer having a fixed magnetization orientation, a second ferromagnetic metal layer having a variable magnetization orientation, and a non-magnetic layer sandwiched between the first ferromagnetic metal layer and the second ferromagnetic metal layer, and spin-orbit torque wiring which extends in a direction that intersects the stacking direction of the magnetoresistive effect element, and is connected to the second ferromagnetic metal layer, wherein the electric current that flows through the magnetoresistive effect element and the electric current that flows through the spin-orbit torque wiring merge or are distributed in the portion where the magnetoresistive effect element and the spin-orbit torque wiring are connected.

Disclosed is a magnetic memory device including a first magnetic pattern that extends in a first direction and has a magnetization direction fixed in one direction, and a plurality of second magnetic patterns that extend across the first magnetic pattern. The second magnetic patterns extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction and are spaced apart from each other in the first direction. Each of the second magnetic patterns includes a plurality of magnetic domains that are spaced apart from each other in the second direction.