A method is provided for fabricating a fixed layer for a MRAM device. The method includes providing the fixed layer. The fixed layer includes an antiferromagnetic pinning layer over a substrate and a ferromagnetic pinned layer over the pinning layer, the pinned layer having a first thickness. The fixed...http://www.google.de/patents/US7083988?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7083988 - Magnetic annealing sequences for patterned MRAM synthetic antiferromagnetic pinned layers