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We propose a new type of magnetoelectric memory device that stores magnetic easy-axis information or pseudo-magnetization, rather than a definite magnetization direction, in piezoelectric/ferromagnetic (PE/FM) heterostructures.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Tingting Shen , Orchi Hassan , Neil R. Dilley , Kerem Y. Camsari , Joerg Appenzeller

In conventional magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) typically increases with barrier thickness as electron transmission in the antiparallel configuration decays faster than that of the parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Zongmeng Yang , Xingyue Yang , Jianhua Wang , Qiang Li , Rui Peng , Ching Hua Lee , Lay Kee Ang , Jing Lu , Yee Sin Ang , Shibo Fang

Recent advances in silicon foundry-process compatible ferroelectric (FE) thin films have reinvigorated interest in FE-based non-volatile memory (NVM) devices. Ferroelectric diodes (FeDs) are two-terminal NVM devices exhibiting rectifying…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-01 Soumya Sarkar , Xiwen Liu , Deep Jariwala

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are key elements in practical spintronics, enabling not only conventional tasks such as data storage, transmission, and processing but also the implementation of compute-in-memory processing elements,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-09 Maksim Stebliy , Alex Jenkins , Luana Benetti , Ricardo Ferreira

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) have attracted strong research interest within the last decades due to their potential use as nonvolatile memory such as MRAM as well as for magnetic logic applications. Half-metallic magnets (HMMs) have…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-05 T. Aull , E. Şaşıoğlu , N. F. Hinsche , I. Mertig

Emerging altermagnets with zero net magnetic moment and moment-dependent spin splitting offer a promising avenue for antiferromagnetic spintronic devices, yet their integration into magnetic tunnel junctions has been hindered by reliance on…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Long Zhang , Guangxin Ni , Xuehao Wu , Guoying Gao

Magnetic materials that possess large bulk perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) are essential for the development of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) used in future spintronic memory and logic devices. The addition of an…

The first switchable electric polarization in metals was recently discovered in bilayer and trilayer WTe2. Strangely, despite the tininess of the ordered polarization, the ferroelectricity survives up to 350 K, rendering the mechanism of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-25 Fangyuan Gu , Ruoshi Jiang , Wei Ku

We study tunneling in ferromagnet/unconventional superconductor (F/S) junctions. We include the effects of spin polarization, interfacial resistance, and Fermi wavevector mismatch (FWM) between the F and S regions. Andreev reflection (AR)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Igor Zutic , Oriol T. Valls

Josephson junctions are essential devices in superconducting electronics and quantum computing hardware. Here we predict electrical control of the supercurrent in composite superconductor-insulator-ferroelectric-insulator-superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-08 Yaozu Tang , Mazhar N. Ali , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Yaroslav M. Blanter

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by biological intelligence, offers a pathway to revolutionize artificial intelligence (AI) by unifying memory and processing in an energy-efficient, sustainable framework for data-intensive tasks.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-10 Xinye Li , Sayani Majumdar

The fundamental property of most single-electron devices with quasicontinuous quasiparticle spectrum on the island is the periodicity of their transport characteristics in the gate voltage. This property is robust even with respect to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 S. A. Fedorov , A. E. Korolkov , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , O. G. Udalov , I. S. Beloborodov

We demonstrate with first-principles electron transport calculations that large tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) and tunneling electroresistance (TER) effects can coexist in an all-oxide device. The TMR originates from the symmetry-driven…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 Nuala Mai Caffrey , Thomas Archer , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

The exceptional properties of two-dimensional (2D) magnet materials present a novel approach to fabricate functional magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) by constructing full van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures with atomically sharp and clean…

HfO2-based ferroelectric films have attracted considerable attention as their nanoscale ferroelectricity and compatibility with cmos technology, fulfilling demands of emerging memory technologies. However, as films scale down,…

A novel defect control approach based on laminated HfO$_2$/ZrO$_2$ with multifunctional TiN/Mo/TiOxNy electrode is proposed to significantly improve the endurance and data retention in HZO-based ferroelectric capacitor. The O-rich interface…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Sheng-Min Wang , Cheng-Rui Liu , Yu-Ting Chen , Shao-Chen Lee , Ying-Tsan Tang

In this paper I briefly overview recent theoretical and experimental advances in understanding of tunneling processes between normal metals and metals containing electrons which occupy partially filled f-orbitals. In heavy-fermion materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-17 Maxim Dzero

Ferroelectricity is characterized by the presence of spontaneous and switchable macroscopic polarization. Scaling limits of ferroelectricity have been of both fundamental and technological importance, but the probes of ferroelectricity have…

A study on a parametrized model of a composite barrier FTJ (three-interface system, with a non-polar dielectric layer) under an external bias voltage and at room temperature, using FEM-based simulations, was performed. The approach involves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 C. Tibeica , T. Sandu , O. Nedelcu , R. Plugaru , N. Plugaru

Switching of magnetic tunnel junction using femto-second laser enables a possible path for THz frequency memory operation, which means writing speeds 2 orders of magnitude faster than alternative electrical approaches based on spin transfer…