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Temperature- and bias voltage-dependent transport measurements of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with perpendicularly magnetized Co/Pd electrodes are presented. Magnetization measurements of the Co/Pd multilayers are performed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Zoë Kugler , Volker Drewello , Markus Schäfers , Jan Schmalhorst , Günter Reiss , Andy Thomas

We have fabricated nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with an additional fixed magnetic layer added above the magnetic free layer of a standard MTJ structure. This acts as a second source of spin-polarized electrons that, depending…

We characterize the nanosecond pulse switching performance of the three-terminal magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), driven by the spin Hall effect (SHE) in the channel, at a cryogenic temperature of 3 K. The SHE-MTJ devices exhibit…

We investigate switching of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) driven by the thermal effect of the transport current through the junctions. The switching occurs in a specially designed composite free layer, which acts as one of the MTJ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. F. Kravets , D. M. Polishchuk , V. A. Pashchenko , A. I. Tovstolytkin , V. Korenivski

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures which are envisioned as nanometre scale information carriers in magnetic memory and logic devices. The recent demonstration of room temperature stabilization of skyrmions and their current…

Subjecting a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) to a spin current and/or electric voltage induces magnetic precession, which can reciprocally pump current through the circuit. This results in an ac impedance, which is sensitive to the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Silas Hoffman , Pramey Upadhyaya , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Thermal-magnetic noise at ferromagnetic resonance (T-FMR) can be used to measure magnetic perpendicular anisotropy of nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). For this purpose, T-FMR measurements were conducted with an external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yongfeng Guan , Jonathan Z. Sun , Xin Jiang , Rai Moriya , Li Gao , Stuart S. P. Parkin

Temperature dependence of the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) was calculated in range of the quantum-ballistic model in the magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with embedded nanoparticles (NPs). The electron tunnel transport through NP was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 Arthur Useinov , Chih-Huang Lai

GaMnAs-based magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices are characterized by in-plane and perpendicular-toplane magnetotransport at low temperatures. Perpendicular-to-plane transport reveals the typical tunneling magnetotransport (TMR) signal.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Aymen Ben Hamida , Florian Bergmann , Klaus Pierz , Hans Werner Schumacher

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) have been widely applied in spintronic devices for efficient spin detection through the imbalance of spin polarization at the Fermi level. The van der Waals (vdW) nature of two-dimensional (2D) magnets with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-31 Wen Jin , Xinlu Li , Gaojie Zhang , Hao Wu , Xiaokun Wen , Li Yang , Jie Yu , Bichen Xiao , Wenfeng Zhang , Jia Zhang , Haixin Chang

In the absence of any external applied magnetic field, we have found that a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) can produce a significant output direct voltage under microwave radiation at frequencies, which are far from the ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Y. S. Gui , Y. Xiao , L. H. Bai , S. Hemour , Y. P. Zhao , D. Houssameddine , K. Wu , H. Guo , C. -M. Hu

We investigated the low temperature performance of CoFeB/MgO based perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (pMTJs) by characterizing their quasi-static switching voltage, high speed pulse write error rate and endurance down to 9 K. pMTJ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Lili Lang , Yujie Jiang , Fei Lu , Cailu Wang , Yizhang Chen , Andrew D. Kent , Li Ye

We comment on both recent progress and lingering puzzles related to research on magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). MTJs are already being used in applications such as magnetic-field sensors in the read heads of disk drives, and they may also…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Z. Sun , D. C. Ralph

We theoretically investigate the chaotic behavior of spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy under thermal fluctuations. By calculating the Lyapunov exponent based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Ryo Tatsumi , Shinji Miwa , Hiroaki Matsueda , Takahiro Chiba

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

Magnetic tunnel junctions operating in the superparamagnetic regime are promising devices in the field of probabilistic computing, which is suitable for applications like high-dimensional optimization or sampling problems. Further, random…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Christopher Safranski , Jan Kaiser , Philip Trouilloud , Pouya Hashemi , Guohan Hu , Jonathan Z Sun

The tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) in the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) with embedded nanoparticles (NPs) was calculated in range of the quantum-ballistic model. The simulation was performed for electron tunneling through the insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-25 Arthur Useinov , Lin-Xiu Ye , Niazbeck Useinov , Te-Ho Wu , Chih-Huang Lai

Since the discovery of the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect the use of the intrinsic angular momentum of the electrons has opened up new spin based device concepts. The two channel model of spin-up and spin-down electrons with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 F. K. Dejene , J. Flipse , G. E. W. Bauer , B. J. van Wees

We demonstrate a simple network-analyzer technique to make quantitative measurements of the bias dependence of spin torque in a magnetic tunnel junction. We apply a microwave current to exert an oscillating spin torque near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 Lin Xue , Chen Wang , Yong-Tao Cui , J. A. Katine , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph

We present a study of the tunnel magneto-Seebeck (TMS) effect in MgO based magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). The electrodes consist of CoFeB with in-plane magnetic anisotropy. The temperature gradients which generate a voltage across the…