Hybrid Domain Wall-Hall Cross Device
First Claim
1. A hybrid domain wall Hall cross device, comprising:
- a semiconductor Hall cross having a top surface and a pair of arms intersecting at a center region;
and a ferromagnetic wire fabricated on the top surface, electrically isolated from the Hall cross, and having a constriction proximate to the center of the Hall cross.
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Abstract
A hybrid domain wall Hall cross device consists of a semiconductor Hall cross having a top surface and a pair of arms intersecting at a center region, and a ferromagnetic wire fabricated on the top surface, electrically isolated from the Hall cross, and having a constriction proximate to the center of the Hall cross. The device provides a magnetoelectronic MRAM storage cell with improved performance characteristics. Binary storage is associated with a trapped domain wall having one of two stable orientations. The bit state can be written using current driven domain wall motion. This is a STT process in which the write current is applied to a thin film, low impedance wire. Heating is minimized and no wear-out mechanism is known to exist.
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9 Claims
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1. A hybrid domain wall Hall cross device, comprising:
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a semiconductor Hall cross having a top surface and a pair of arms intersecting at a center region; and a ferromagnetic wire fabricated on the top surface, electrically isolated from the Hall cross, and having a constriction proximate to the center of the Hall cross. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A hybrid domain wall Hall cross memory device, comprising:
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a semiconductor Hall cross having a top surface and a pair of arms intersecting at a center region; and a ferromagnetic wire fabricated on the top surface, electrically isolated from the Hall cross, having a constriction proximate to the center of the Hall cross, and having at least two configurable and stable magnetization orientation states corresponding to two different values of a data item stored in said device, and covering a portion of the top surface such that a fringe magnetic field having two states and configured substantially normal to the top surface can be generated by an edge portion of the ferromagnetic wire; and wherein two different electrical signals, each corresponding to a different one of the two different data values, can be generated in response to the two fringe magnetization field states acting on an electrical current flowing in the top surface.
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7. A nonvolatile memory array comprising a plurality of hybrid domain wall Hall cross memory cells, wherein each said cell comprises:
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a semiconductor Hall cross having a top surface and a pair of arms intersecting at a center region; and a ferromagnetic wire fabricated on the top surface, electrically isolated from the Hall cross, having a constriction proximate to the center of the Hall cross, and having at least two configurable and stable magnetization orientation states corresponding to two different values of a data item stored in said device, and covering a portion of the top surface such that a fringe magnetic field having two states and configured substantially normal to the top surface can be generated by an edge portion of the ferromagnetic wire; and wherein two different electrical signals, each corresponding to a different one of the two different data values, can be generated in response to the two fringe magnetization field states acting on an electrical current flowing in the top surface. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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