Patent ID: 8842465

Claim:
A memory element, comprising: a layered structure including: a memory layer that has magnetization perpendicular to a film face in which a direction of the magnetization is changed depending on information, the direction of the magnetization being changed by applying a current in a lamination direction of the layered structure to record the information in the memory layer, a magnetization-fixed layer that has magnetization perpendicular to a film face that becomes a base of the information stored in the memory layer, has a laminated ferri-pinned structure including at least two ferromagnetic layers and a non-magnetic layer, and includes an anti-ferromagnetic oxide layer formed on a first ferromagnetic layer of the at least two ferromagnetic layers and situated between the first ferromagnetic layer and the non-magnetic layer, and an intermediate layer that is formed of a non-magnetic material and is provided between the memory layer and the magnetization-fixed layer.