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The Discovery of giant tunnel electroresistance (TER) in Ferroelectric Tunnel Junction (FTJ) paves a futuristic possibility of utilizing the FTJ as a bistable resistive device with an enormously high ON/OFF ratio. In the last 20 years,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Nilesh Pandey , Yogesh Singh Chauhan

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…

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We report on the noise performance characteristics of magnetic sensors using both magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and giant magnetoresistance (GMR) elements. Each sensor studied has a notably different noise and detectivity. Of the sensors…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-24 J. E. Davies , J. D. Watts , J. Novotny , D. Huang , P. G. Eames

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 (MTJs) with conventional bulk ferromagnets separated by a nonmagnetic insulating layer are key building blocks in spintronics for magnetic sensors and memory. A radically different approach of using atomically-thin…

Rapid random telegraph noise (RTN) in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) is an important figure of merit for probabilistic computing applications. However, the interactions between the macrospin and spin waves with finite wave numbers reduce…

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Several experimental techniques have been introduced in recent years in attempts to measure spin transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). The dependence of spin torque on bias is important for understanding fundamental spin…

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Based on the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) technique and the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker theory, the possibility of a molecular spin-electronic device, which consists of a single C$_{60}$ molecule attached to two ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-31 Alireza Saffarzadeh

Antiferromagnetic spintronics exhibits ultra-high operational speed and stability in a magnetic field, holding promise for the realization of next-generation ultra-high-speed magnetic storage. However, theoretical exploration of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Zhi Yan , Dan Qiao , Wentian Lu , Xinlong Dong , Xiaohong Xu

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

Antiferromagnetic (AF) spintronics is merit on ultra-high operator speed and stability in the presence of magnetic field. To fully use the merit, the device should be pure rather than hybrid with ferromagnet or ferrimagnet. For the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Xingtao Jia , Hui-Min Tang , Shi-Zhuo Wan

Using a simple quantum-mechanical model, we explore a tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR) effect in ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) with a ferromagnetic electrode and a ferroelectric barrier layer, which spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 A. Alexandrov , M. Ye. Zhuravlev , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

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…

The high current density required by Magnetic Tunneling Junction (MTJ) switching driven by Spin Transfer Torque (STT) effect leads to large power consumption and severe reliability issues therefore hinder the timetable for STT Magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 Lang Zeng , Tianqi Gao , Deming Zhang , Shouzhong Peng , Fanghui Gong , Xiaowan Qin , Mingzhi Long , Youguang Zhang , Weisheng Zhao

We study the annealing stability of bottom-pinned perpendicularly magnetized magnetic tunnel junctions based on dual MgO free layers and thin fixed systems comprising a hard [Co/Ni] multilayer antiferromagnetically coupled to thin a Co…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-22 T. Devolder , S. Couet , J. Swerts , E. Liu , T. Lin , S. Mertens , G. Kar , A. Furnemont

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has emerged as a subfield of spintronics driven by the advantages of antiferromagnets producing no stray fields and exhibiting ultrafast magnetization dynamics. The efficient method to detect an AFM order…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-25 Jianting Dong , Xinlu Li , Gautam Gurung , Meng Zhu , Peina Zhang , Fanxing Zheng , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal , Jia Zhang

Understanding quantitatively the heating dynamics in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) submitted to current pulses is very important in the context of spin-transfer-torque magnetic random access memory development. Here we provide a method to…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-28 A. Chavent , C. Ducruet , C. Portemont , L. Vila , J. Alvarez-Hérault , R. Sousa , I. L. Prejbeanu , B. Dieny

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

Magnetic tunnel junctions with Fe1+xCo2-xSi (0 < x < 1) electrodes and MgO barrier were prepared on MgO substrates by magnetron co-sputtering. Maximum tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) ratios of 262 % at 15 K and 159 % at room temperature were…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-12 Christian Sterwerf , Markus Meinert , Jan-Michael Schmalhorst , Günter Reiss

We observe spin-valve-like effects in nano-scaled thermally evaporated Co/AlOx/Au tunnel junctions. The tunneling magnetoresistance is anisotropic and depends on the relative orientation of the magnetization direction of the Co electrode…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. S. Liu , L. Michalak , C. M. Canali , L. Samuelson , H. Pettersson