Patents by Inventor Te-Ho Wu

Te-Ho Wu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9159394
    Abstract: A ring-shaped magnetoresistive memory device includes a ring-shaped magnetoresistive memory cell, a first conductor, and a second conductor. The first conductor is positioned on a first surface of the ring-shaped magnetoresistive memory cell for generating a first magnetic field pulse. The second conductor is positioned on a second surface of the ring-shaped magnetoresistive memory cell for generating a second magnetic field pulse. The first surface is opposite to the second surface. An extension direction of the first conductor is perpendicular to an extension direction of the second conductor. A time delay is between the first magnetic field pulse and the second magnetic field pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jyh-Shinn Yang, Ching-Ming Lee, Te-Ho Wu
  • Publication number: 20150023092
    Abstract: A ring-shaped magnetoresistive memory device includes a ring-shaped magnetoresistive memory cell, a first conductor, and a second conductor. The first conductor is positioned on a first surface of the ring-shaped magnetoresistive memory cell for generating a first magnetic field pulse. The second conductor is positioned on a second surface of the ring-shaped magnetoresistive memory cell for generating a second magnetic field pulse. The first surface is opposite to the second surface. An extension direction of the first conductor is perpendicular to an extension direction of the second conductor. A time delay is between the first magnetic field pulse and the second magnetic field pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jyh-Shinn YANG, Ching-Ming LEE, Te-Ho WU
  • Patent number: 8558540
    Abstract: In A method for measuring a dimensionless coupling constant of a magnetic structure includes the following steps. A step of applying an external vertical magnetic field is performed for enabling magnetic moments of a RE-TM (Rare Earth-Transition metal) alloy magnetic layer of the magnetic structure to be vertical and saturated. A step of measuring a compensation temperature is performed when the sum of the magnetization of the RE-TM alloy magnetic layer is zero. A step of applying an external parallel magnetic field to the RE-TM alloy magnetic layer is performed. A step of adjusting the temperature of the magnetic structure to the compensation temperature and measuring a hysteresis loop of the magnetic structure under the external parallel magnetic field is performed, wherein the inverse of the slope of hysteresis loop is a dimensionless coupling constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Te-Ho Wu, Lin-Hsiu Ye, Ying-Chuen Luo
  • Patent number: 8435652
    Abstract: A magnetic stack structure is disclosed. The magnetic stack structure includes two metal layers and a free layer sandwiched by the two metal layers. The thickness of the free layer is 1-30 nm. The thickness of the metal layers are 0.1-20 nm respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Te-Ho Wu, Lin-Hsiu Ye, Ching-Ming Lee
  • Publication number: 20130009633
    Abstract: In A method for measuring a dimensionless coupling constant of a magnetic structure includes the following steps. A step of applying an external vertical magnetic field is performed for enabling magnetic moments of a RE-TM (Rare Earth-Transition metal) alloy magnetic layer of the magnetic structure to be vertical and saturated. A step of measuring a compensation temperature is performed when the sum of the magnetization of the RE-TM alloy magnetic layer is zero. A step of applying an external parallel magnetic field to the RE-TM alloy magnetic layer is performed. A step of adjusting the temperature of the magnetic structure to the compensation temperature and measuring a hysteresis loop of the magnetic structure under the external parallel magnetic field is performed, wherein the inverse of the slope of hysteresis loop is a dimensionless coupling constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Te-Ho WU, Lin-Hsiu YE, Ying-Chuen LUO
  • Publication number: 20120052193
    Abstract: A magnetic stack structure is disclosed. The magnetic stack structure includes two metal layers and a free layer sandwiched by the two metal layers. The thickness of the free layer is 1-30 nm. The thickness of the metal layers are 0.1-20 nm respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: Te-Ho WU, Lin-Hsiu YE, Ching-Ming LEE
  • Publication number: 20100266873
    Abstract: A magnetic stack structure is disclosed. The magnetic stack structure includes two metal layers and a free layer sandwiched by the two metal layers. The thickness of the free layer is 1-30 nm. The thickness of the metal layers are 0.1-20 nm respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Te-Ho WU, Lin-Hsiu YE, Ching-Ming LEE
  • Patent number: 7596017
    Abstract: A magnetic random access memory includes a substrate, a free layer and a spacer layer. The substrate and the free layer are made of a vertical anisotropy ferrimagentic thin film. The spacer layer is sandwiched between the substrate and the free layer and is made of an insulating layer. The method uses a modified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation to obtain a critical current value as a function of exchange coupling constant. The critical current value is predictable under several external magnetic fields being applied. When the exchange coupling constant is proportionally varied, the critical current value is reduced to a third of its original value under an optimum state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Te-Ho Wu, Alberto Canizo Cabrera, Lin-Hsiu Ye
  • Publication number: 20090046497
    Abstract: A system and a method for reducing critical current of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) are disclosed. The magnetic device includes at least a pinned layer, a spacer layer and a free layer, and the material of the pinned layer and the free layer is perpendicularly anisotropic ferrimagnetic. The spacer layer is an insulator. By the modified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations, the varying trend of the critical current can be estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Te-Ho Wu, Alberto Canizo Cabrera, Lin-Xiu Ye
  • Publication number: 20080205123
    Abstract: A magnetic random access memory includes a substrate, a free layer and a spacer layer. The substrate and the free layer are made of a vertical anisotropy ferrimagentic thin film. The spacer layer is sandwiched between the substrate and the free layer and is made of an insulating layer. The method uses a modified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation to obtain a critical current value as a function of exchange coupling constant. The critical current value is predictable under several external magnetic fields being applied. When the exchange coupling constant is proportionally varied, the critical current value is reduced to a third of its original value under an optimum state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Te-Ho Wu, Alberto Canizo Cabrera, Lin-Hsiu Ye
  • Patent number: 7403414
    Abstract: A method for measuring hysteresis curves and anisotropic energy of magnetic memory units is disclosed. It comprises gradually applying different magnetic fields to a single-layer or a multilayer magnetic structure (such as a MRAM memory unit) by extra ordinary Hall effect, and recording the variation of the Hall voltage to obtain the hysteresis curve and anisotropic energy with specific instruments, and calculating the individual anisotropic energy value of the magnetic material of the single-layer or the multilayer magnetic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Te-Ho Wu, Lin-Hsiu Ye, Jia-Mou Lee, Ming-Chi Weng
  • Publication number: 20070215955
    Abstract: A magnetic tunneling junction structure for magnetic random access memory is disclosed. A composite structure includes at least a pinning layer, a barrier layer, a ferromagnetic layer and a free layer, and the material of the pinning layer and the free layer are perpendicularly anisotropic ferrimagnetic. As the structures include of several barrier layers, free layers and ferrimagnetic layers, that lower coercivity and high squareness for the hysteresis curves can be obtained, and reduction of the coercivity of the free layer can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Te-Ho Wu, Lin-Hsiu Ye, Che-Hao Chang, Tzu-Jung Chen
  • Publication number: 20070215967
    Abstract: A system and a method for reducing critical current of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) are disclosed. The magnetic device includes at least a pinned layer, a spacer layer and a free layer, and the material of the pinned layer and the free layer is perpendicularly anisotropic ferrimagnetic. The spacer layer is an insulator. By the modified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations, the varying trend of the critical current can be estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Te-Ho Wu, Alberto Canizo Cabrera, Lin-Xiu Ye
  • Publication number: 20070217255
    Abstract: A method for measuring hysteresis curves and anisotropic energy of magnetic memory units is disclosed. It comprises gradually applying different magnetic fields to a single-layer or a multilayer magnetic structure (such as a MRAM memory unit) by extra ordinary Hall effect, and recording the variation of the Hall voltage to obtain the hysteresis curve and anisotropic energy with specific instruments, and calculating the individual anisotropic energy value of the magnetic material of the single-layer or the multilayer magnetic structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Te-Ho Wu, Lin-Hsiu Ye, Jia-Mou Lee, Ming-Chi Weng
  • Publication number: 20060250129
    Abstract: A method of measuring sub-micrometer hysteresis loops of a magnetic film is provided. First, a magnetic field is applied to a sample of a magnetic film, and a polarization microscope is used to observe an analytical area of the sample. Next, the observed dynamic video is converted to many digital pictures stored in chronological order. Then, the grayscale values of each selected pixel are read and converted to the corresponding relative magnetic moments, and hysteresis loops of each selected pixel are drawn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventors: Te-Ho Wu, Lin-Hsiu Ye, Jia-Mou Lee