Patent 9947862 was granted and assigned to Toshiba Memory Corporation on April, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
According to one embodiment, a magnetoresistive memory device includes a first magnetic layer in which a magnetization direction is variable, a first nonmagnetic layer provided on the first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer provided on the first nonmagnetic layer, a magnetization direction of the second magnetic layer being invariable, and a second nonmagnetic layer provided on the first magnetic layer, which is opposite the first nonmagnetic layer. The first magnetic layer includes Mo.