Patent 7230290 was granted and assigned to Infineon Technologies on June, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A digital magnetic memory cell device for read and/or write operation includes a soft-magnetic read and/or write layer system and at least one hard-magnetic reference layer system formed as an AAF system. The AAF system includes an AAF layer composite and at least one reference layer. The reference layer system includes at least one ferromagnetic layer arranged adjacent to a magnetic layer of the AAF layer composite in which the thickness of the antiferromagnetic layer is dimensioned to have a uniaxial anisotropy.