Patent ID: 11887640
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A magnetoelectric memory device, comprising:
a first electrode;
a second electrode; and
a magnetic tunnel junction located between the first electrode and the second electrode, the magnetic tunnel junction comprising, along a direction from the first electrode toward the second electrode, a first reference layer, a nonmagnetic tunnel barrier layer, and a free layer; and
a dielectric capping layer located between the magnetic tunnel junction and the second electrode,
wherein a two-dimensional metal compound layer including a two-dimensional compound of a nonmagnetic metallic element and a nonmetallic element is embedded within the free layer or is located between the nonmagnetic tunnel barrier layer and the free layer.