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We use three-terminal magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) designed for field-free switching by spin-orbit torques (SOTs) to systematically study the impact of dual voltage pulses on the switching performances. We show that the concurrent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Viola Krizakova , Eva Grimaldi , Kevin Garello , Giacomo Sala , Sebastien Couet , Gouri Sankar Kar , Pietro Gambardella

The conditions of field and voltage for inducing steady state excitations in fully perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (pMTJs), adapted for memory applications, were numerically investigated by the resolution of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Alexandru Atitoaie , Ioana Firastrau , Liliana D. Buda-Prejbeanu , Ursula Ebels , Marius Volmer

High impedance (about 1 Megaohm) magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are used to observe and record the magnetodynamics of the nanomagnets that form the junctions themselves. To counteract the bandwidth limitations caused by the high impedance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 Jason Dark , Hanbin Ying , Grant Nunn , John D. Cressler , Dragomir Davidovic

We propose an electrically driven spin injector into normal metals and semiconductors, which is based on a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) subjected to a microwave voltage. Efficient functioning of such an injector is provided by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 A. I. Nikitchenko , N. A. Pertsev

Voltage-driven spin transfer torque in a magnetic tunnel junction comprising magnetic insulating electrodes is studied theoretically. In contrast with the conventional magnetic tunnel junctions comprising transition metal ferromagnets, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Y. Yuan A. Manchon

Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) spin torque oscillators (STO) have shown the potential to be used in a wide range of microwave and sensing applications. To evaluate potential uses of MTJ STO technology in various applications, an analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 Tingsu Chen , Anders Eklund , Ezio Iacocca , Saul Rodriguez , Gunnar Malm , Johan Åkerman , Ana Rusu

Low temperature (10K) high voltage bias dynamic conductivity (up to 2.7V) and shot noise (up to 1V) were studied in epitaxial Fe(100)/Fe-C/MgO(100)/Fe(100) magnetic tunnel junctions, as a function of the magnetic state. The junctions show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-26 R. Guerrero , D. Herranz , F. G. Aliev , F. Greullet , C. Tiusan , M. Hehn , F. Montaigne

Theoretical investigations of spin transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions using the tight-binding model in the framework of non-equilibrium Green functions formalism are presented. We show that the behavior of the spin transfer torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Chshiev , I. Theodonis , A. Kalitsov , N. Kioussis , W. H. Butler

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are key enablers of spintronic technologies used in a variety of applications including information storage, microwave generation and detection, as well as unconventional computing. Here, we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Andrea Meo , Chengcen Sha , Emily Darwin , Riccardo Tomasello , Mario Carpentieri , Ilya N. Krivorotov , Giovanni Finocchio

Spin-polarized currents can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet, generating a torque that can efficiently reorient its magnetization. Achieving quantitative measurements of the spin-transfer-torque vector in magnetic tunnel…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 J. C. Sankey , Y. -T. Cui , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph , J. Z. Sun , J. C. Slonczewski

In a number of current experiments in the field of spin-caloritronics a temperature gradient across a nanostructured interface is applied and spin-dependent transport phenomena are observed. However, a lack in the interpretation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Jia Zhang , Michael Bachman , Michael Czerner , Christian Heiliger

We study the charge and spin currents passing through a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) on the basis of a tight-binding model. The currents are evaluated perturbatively with respect to the tunnel Hamiltonian. The charge current has the form…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-11 Daisuke Miura , Akimasa Sakuma

The straintronic magnetic tunnel junction (s-MTJ) is an MTJ whose resistance state can be changed continuously or gradually from high to low with a gate voltage that generates strain the magnetostrictive soft layer. This unusual feature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

When a charge current is applied to a junction comprising two different conductors, its temperature increases or decreases depending on the direction of the charge current. This phenomenon is called the Peltier effect, which is used in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Shunsuke Daimon , Ryo Iguchi , Tomosato Hioki , Eiji Saitoh , Ken-ichi Uchida

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), that consist of two ferromagnetic electrodes separated by an insulating barrier layer, have non-trivial fundamental properties associated with spin-dependent tunneling. Especially interesting are fully…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-12 Kartik Samanta , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We investigate the spin injection and the spin transport in paramagnetic insulators described by simple Heisenberg interactions using auxiliary particle methods. Some of these methods allow access to both paramagnetic states above magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-23 Satoshi Okamoto

Altermagnets with nonrelativistic momentum-dependent spin splitting and compensated net magnetic moments have recently garnered significant interest in spintronics, particularly as pinning layers in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs).…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-10 Long Zhang , Guangxin Ni , Junjie He , Guoying Gao

Magnetic Johnson noise is an important consideration for many applications involving precision magnetometry, and its significance will only increase in the future with improvements in measurement sensitivity. The fluctuation-dissipation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 N. S. Phan , S. M. Clayton , Y. J. Kim , T. M. Ito

We theoretically investigate the role of spin fluctuations in charge transport through a magnetic junction. Motivated by recent experiments that measure a nonlinear dependence of the current on electrical bias, we develop a systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Scott A. Bender , Rembert A. Duine , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We propose the two-band s-d model to describe theoretically a diffuse regime of the spin-dependent electron transport in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ's) of the form F/O/F where F's are 3d transition metal ferromagnetic layers and O is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Bagrets , A. Bagrets , A. Vedyayev , B. Dieny