To provide a high rate of magnetoresistance change while securing a soft magnetic property of a magnetic layer.
The magnetoresistive effect element includes a pair of magnetic layers 7 and 9 structured to change a relative angle formed by magnetization angles of the pair of magnetic layers 7 and 9 in response to an external magnetic field, and a crystalline spacer layer 8 sandwiched between the pair of magnetic layers, and is structured such that a sense current 22 flows in a direction orthogonal to film surfaces of the pair of magnetic layers and the spacer layer. The spacer layer 8 contains a crystalline oxide, at least one-side magnetic layer having a magnetization direction changing in response to the external magnetic field within the pair of magnetic layers 7 and 9 has a film structure where a CoFeB layer is sandwiched between a CoFe layer and a NiFe layer, and the CoFeB layer is located between the spacer layer and the NiFe layer.
HARA SHINJI
MIZUNO TOMOHITO
MIURA SATOSHI
YANAGISAWA TAKUMI
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US20070047159A1 | 2007-03-01 |
Ishibashi Masayuki
Masaaki Ogata