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There is growing interest in exploring nanomagnetic devices as potential replacements for electronic devices (e.g. transistors) in digital switching circuits and systems. A special class of nanomagnetic devices are switched with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Md Ahsanul Abeed , Justine L. Drobitch , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

Energy efficiency of optoelectronic switches based on high-voltage silicon photodiodes, phototransistors or photothyristors and triggered-on by picosecond laser pulses has been studied for the first time. For given values of resistive load,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 A. S. Kyuregyan

We propose an optical memory cell based on ultrafast wavelength switching in coupled-cavity microlasers, featuring bistability between modes separated by several nanometers. A numerical implementation is demonstrated by simulating a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-29 Sergei V. Zhukovsky , Dmitry N. Chigrin

Permutation matrices form an important computational building block frequently used in various fields including e.g., communications, information security and data processing. Optical implementation of permutation operators with relatively…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-09 Deniz Mengu , Yifan Zhao , Anika Tabassum , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

A magneto-optical trap (MOT) of atoms or molecules is studied when two lasers of different detunings and polarization are used. Especially for $J\rightarrow J,J-1$ transitions, a scheme using more than one frequency per transition and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Anne Cournol , Pierre Pillet , Hans Lignier , Daniel Comparat

Pinning magnetization in a ferromagnetic thin film is commonly realized through exchange biasing with an adjacent antiferromagnet. Field-cooling from above the N\'{e}el temperature is a reliable yet slow re-pinning method in exchange-biased…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Floris J. F. van Riel , Andries B. M. Droste , Bert Koopmans , Diana C. Leitao

Superparamagnetic tunnel junctions (SMTJs) are promising sources for the randomness required by some compact and energy-efficient computing schemes. Coupling SMTJs gives rise to collective behavior that could be useful for cognitive…

We propose the first tensorized optical multimodal fusion network architecture with a self-attention mechanism and low-rank tensor fusion. Simulation results show $51.3 \times$ less hardware requirement and $3.7\times 10^{13}$ MAC/J energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Yequan Zhao , Xian Xiao , Geza Kurczveil , Raymond G. Beausoleil , Zheng Zhang

We investigate spin-dependent conductance across a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) including a ferromagnetic insulating barrier. The MTJ consists of two half-metallic ferromagnetic La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) manganites as electrodes and La2NiMnO6…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 M. Abbasi Eskandari , S. Ghotb , P. Fournier

Magnetic recording using circularly polarized femto-second laser pulses is an emerging technology that would allow write speeds much faster than existing field driven methods. However, the mechanism that drives the magnetization switching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Matthew O. A. Ellis , Eric E. Fullerton , Roy W. Chantrell

A critical challenge for the integration of the optoelectronics is that photodetectors have relatively poor sensitivities at the nanometer scale. It is generally believed that a large electrodes spacing in photodetectors is required to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Yufei Cao , Kaiming Cai , Pingan Hu , Lixia Zhao , Tengfei Yan , Xinhui Zhang , Xiaoguang Wu , Kaiyou Wang , Houzhi Zheng

Silicon photonics has emerged as the leading candidate for implementing ultralow power wavelength division multiplexed communication networks in high-performance computers, yet current components (lasers, modulators, filters, and detectors)…

Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (p-MTJs) switched utilizing bipolar electric fields have extensive applications in energy-efficient memory and logic devices. Voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy linearly lowers the energy barrier…

We demonstrate that the magnetization reversal in a ferromagnetic Pt/Co/Pt stack can be induced by a single femtosecond laser pulse. We find that the size of the switched spot is comparable to the size of the intrinsic magnetic domains. It…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Mircea Vomir , Michèle Albrecht , Jean-Yves Bigot

The wide adoption and significant computing resource of attention-based transformers, e.g., Vision Transformers and large language models (LLM), have driven the demand for efficient hardware accelerators. There is a growing interest in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Hanqing Zhu , Jiaqi Gu , Hanrui Wang , Zixuan Jiang , Zhekai Zhang , Rongxing Tang , Chenghao Feng , Song Han , Ray T. Chen , David Z. Pan

Engineering and controlling heat and spin transport on the femtosecond time-scale in spintronic devices opens up new ways to manipulate magnetization with unprecedented speed. Yet the underlying reversal mechanisms remain poorly understood…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Harjinder Singh , Alberto Anadón , Junta Igarashi , Quentin Remy , Stéphane Mangin , Michel Hehn , Jon Gorchon , Gregory Malinowski

We predict an anomalous bias dependence of the spin transfer torque parallel to interface, $T_{||}$, in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ), which can be selectively tuned by the exchange splitting. It may exhibit a sign reversal {\it without}…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Theodonis , Nicholas Kioussis , Alan Kalitsov , Mairbek Chshiev , William Butler

Ultrafast control of magnetization on the nanometer length scale, in particular all-optical switching, is key to putting ultrafast magnetism on the path towards future technological application in data storage technology. However,…

The large-scale fabrication of three-terminal magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with high yield is becoming increasingly crucial, especially with the growing interest in spin-orbit torque (SOT) magnetic random access memory (MRAM) as the…

Enhanced interband tunnel injection of holes into a PN junction is demonstrated using P-GaN/InGaN/N-GaN tunnel junctions with a specific resistivity of 1.2 X 10-4 {\Omega} cm2. The design methodology and low-temperature characteristic of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-25 Sriram Krishnamoorthy , Fatih Akyol , Pil Sung Park , Siddharth Rajan