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The escalating demand for memory scaling requires switching mechanisms that remain reliable at atomic thickness while operating with minimal energy consumption. Sliding ferroelectricity provides a promising platform for this challenge: the…

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Magnetic random access memory that uses magnetic tunnel junction memory cells is a high performance, non-volatile memory technology that goes beyond traditional charge-based memories. Today its speed is limited by the high magnetization of…

Ferroelectric tunnel junctions offer potential for non-volatile memory with low power, fast switching, and scalability, but their performance is limited by a high resistance-area product and a low tunnel electroresistance ratio. To address…

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Multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) based on two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures with sharp and clean interfaces at the atomic scale are crucial for applications in nanoscale multi-resistive logic memory devices. The…

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A ferroelectric tunnel barrier in between two ferromagnetic electrodes (multiferroic tunnel junction, MFTJ), is one of the most promising concepts for future microelectronic devices. In parallel, Hafnia based ferroelectrics are showing…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials are a pathway to spintronic memory and computing devices with unprecedented speed, energy efficiency, and bit density. Realizing this potential requires AFM devices with simultaneous electrical writing and…

The ferroelectric material is an important platform to realize non-volatile memories. So far, existing ferroelectric memory devices utilize out-of-plane polarization in ferroelectric thin films. In this paper, we propose a new type of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Huitao Shen , Junwei Liu , Kai Chang , Liang Fu

Manipulation of tunneling spin-polarized electrons via a ferroelectric interlayer sandwiched between two ferromagnetic electrodes, dubbed Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions (MFTJs), can be achieved not only by the magnetic alignments of two…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-26 Mei Fang , Sangjian Zhang , Wenchao Zhang , Lu Jiang , Eric Vetter , Ho Nyung Lee , Xiaoshan Xu , Dali Sun , Jian Shen

All-oxide magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) incorporating functional materials as insulating barriers have the potential of becoming the founding technology for novel multi-functional devices. We investigate, by first-principles density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Nuala M. Caffrey , Thomas Archer , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

Using metal-ferroelectric junctions as switchable diodes was proposed several decades ago. This was shown to actually work in PbZr(1-x)TixO3 (PZT) by Blom et al. [P.W. M. Blom et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 2107 (1994)], who reported…

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Electron transport through fully depleted ferroelectric tunnel barriers sandwiched between two metal electrodes and its dependence on ferroelectric polarization direction are investigated. The model assumes a polarization direction…

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Ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) are a class of memristor which promise low-power, scalable, field-driven analog operation. In order to harness their full potential, operation with identical pulses is targeted. In this paper, several…

The Discovery of giant tunnel electroresistance (TER) in Ferroelectric Tunnel Junction (FTJ) paves a futuristic possibility of utilizing the FTJ as a bistable resistive device with an enormously high ON/OFF ratio. In the last 20 years,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Nilesh Pandey , Yogesh Singh Chauhan

Multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs), integrating ferroelectric and ferromagnetic functionalities within a single nanoscale device, hold significant promise for non-volatile, multi-state memory and innovative computing paradigms. In…

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Ferroelectric devices use their electric polarization ferroic order as the switching and storage physical quantity for memory applications. However, additional built-in physical quantities and memory paradigms are requested for…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-16 B. Kundys , V. Iurchuk , C. Meny , H. Majjad , B. Doudin

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are key components of spintronic devices, such as magnetic random-access memories. Normally, MTJs consist of two ferromagnetic (FM) electrodes separated by an insulating barrier layer. Their key functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-06 Kartik Samanta , Yuan-Yuan Jiang , Tula R. Paudel , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

The multiple ferroelectric polarization tuned by external electric field could be used to simulate the biological synaptic weight. Ferroelectric synaptic devices have two advantages compared with other reported ones: One is the intrinsic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Bobo Tian , Ni Zhong , Chungang Duan

The tunneling electroresistance (TER) for ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) with BaTiO_{3} (BTO) and PbTiO}_{3} (PTO) barriers is calculated by combining the microscopic electronic structure of the barrier material with a macroscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-12-17 N. F. Hinsche , M. Fechner , P. Bose , S. Ostanin , J. Henk , I. Mertig , P. Zahn

Serial connection of multiple memory cells using perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (pMTJ) is proposed as a way to increase magnetic random access memory (MRAM) storage density. Multi-bit storage element is designed using pMTJs…

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