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We propose an all-electric implementation of a precessionally switched perpendicular magnetic anisotropy magneto-tunneling-junction (p-MTJ) based toggle memory cell where data is written with voltage-controlled-magnetic-anisotropy (VCMA)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Justine L. Drobitch , Md Ahsanul Abeed , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

Spin-transfer torques (STTs) can be exploited in order to manipulate the magnetic moments of nanomagnets, thus allowing for new consumer-oriented devices to be designed. Of particular interest here are tuneable radio-frequency (RF)…

The antiferromagnets with the time-reversal symmetry broken magnetic structures possess a finite spin splitting in the momentum space, and may contribute to a realization of a finite tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect even with magnets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Katsuhiro Tanaka , Yuta Toga , Susumu Minami , Satoru Nakatsuji , Takuya Nomoto , Takashi Koretsune , Ryotaro Arita

The tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect observed in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) is commonly used in many spintronic applications because the effect can easily convert from local magnetic states to electric signals in a wide range of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-17 Thomas Scheike , Zhenchao Wen , Hiroaki Sukegawa , Seiji Mitani

Conventional and spin-related thermoelectric effects in electronic transport through a nanoscopic system exhibiting magnetic anisotropy $-$with both uniaxial and transverse components$-$ are studied theoretically in the linear response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 Maciej Misiorny , Józef Barnaś

We measure the low-temperature resistance of permalloy break junctions as a function of contact size and the magnetic field angle, in applied fields large enough to saturate the magnetization. For both nanometer-scale metallic contacts and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 Kirill I. Bolotin , Ferdinand Kuemmeth , D. C. Ralph

Perpendicularly magnetized CoFeB layers with ultra-thin non-magnetic insertion layers are very widely used as the electrodes in magnetic tunnel junctions for spin transfer magnetic random access memory devices. Exchange interactions play a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Jamileh Beik Mohammadi , Bartek Kardasz , Georg Wolf , Yizhang Chen , Mustafa Pinarbasi , Andrew D. Kent

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

Collinear antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials have unique promise of no stray fields, display ultrafast dynamics, and being robust against perturbation filed which motivates the extensive research of antiferromagnetic spintronics. However,…

We investigated spin dependent transport through Fe/GaAs/Fe tunnel junctions. The tunneling magnetoresistance effect (TMR) was probed for different types of Fe/GaAs interfaces. For interfaces cleaned by hydrogen plasma the TMR effect is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Moser , M. Zenger , C. Gerl , D. Schuh , R. Meier , P. Chen , G. Bayreuther , W. Wegscheider , D. Weiss , C. -H. Lai , R. -T. Huang , M. Kosuth , H. Ebert

We investigate the thermoelectric properties of Fe/MgO/Fe(001) magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) by means of the linear-response theory combined with a first-principles-based Landauer-B\"uttiker approach. We find that the Seebeck coefficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-27 Kaoru Yamamoto , Keisuke Masuda , Ken-ichi Uchida , Yoshio Miura

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

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

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

In our JunPy package, we have combined the first-principles calculated self-consistent Hamiltonian with divide-and-conquer technique to successfully determine the magnetic anisotropy (MA) in an Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). We…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-21 Bao-Huei Huang , Yu-Hsiang Fu , Chao-Cheng Kaun , Yu-Hui Tang

We have studied the Junction Magnetoresistance (JMR) and the Differential junction magnetoresistance (DJMR) for double tunnel junctions with magnetic metals in the Coulomb Blockade regime. Spikes are seen in both the JMR and the DJMR vs.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Kingshuk Majumdar , Selman Hershfield

The tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect is one of the representative phenomena in spintronics. Ferromagnets, which have a net spin polarization, have been utilized for the TMR effect. Recently, by contrast, the TMR effect with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Katsuhiro Tanaka , Takuya Nomoto , Ryotaro Arita

Oscillatory tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) as a function of spacer thickness is investigated theoretically for a magnetic tunnel junction with a nonmagnetic layer inserted between the tunnel barrier and the ferromagnetic layer. TMR is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Changsik Choi , Byung Chan Lee

We investigated dependence of tunnel magnetoresistance effect in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions on Ar pressure during MgO-barrier sputtering. Sputter deposition of MgO-barrier at high Ar pressure of 10 mTorr resulted in smooth…

Magnetite (Fe3O4) is an eligible candidate for magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) since it shows a high spin polarization at the Fermi level as well as a high Curie temperature of 585{\deg}C. In this study, Fe3O4/MgO/Co-Fe-B MTJs were…