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Altermagnets demonstrate significant potential in spintronics due to their unique non-relativistic spin-splitting properties, yet altermagnetic devices still face challenges in efficiently switching logic states. Here, we report…

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Going beyond the bistability paradigm of the charge polarizations in ferroelectrics is highly desired for ferroelectric (FE) memory devices toward ultra-high-density information storage. Here, we propose to build multistates by combining…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-03 Chuhan Tang , Zhiqiang Tian , Tao Ouyang , Anlian Pan , Mingxing Chen

The multiferroic materials, which coexist magnetism, ferroelectric, and ferrovalley, have broad practical application prospects in promoting the miniaturization and integration of spintronic and valleytronic devices. However, it is rare…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-26 Chao Wu , Hanbo Sun , Pengqiang Dong , Yin-Zhong Wu , Ping Li

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…

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

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are crucial components in high-performance spintronic devices. Traditional MTJs rely on ferromagnetic (FM) materials but significant improvements in speed and packing density could be enabled by exploiting…

Tunneling electroresistance (TER) effect is the change in the electrical resistance of a ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) associated with polarization reversal in the ferroelectric barrier layer. Here we predict that a FTJ with a…

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All-oxide magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) incorporating functional materials as insulating barriers have the potential of becoming the founding technology for novel multi-functional devices. We investigate, by first-principles density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Nuala M. Caffrey , Thomas Archer , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

The realization of multiferroics in nanostructures, combined with a large electric dipole and ferromagnetic ordering, could lead to new applications, such as high-density multi-state data storage. Although multiferroics have been broadly…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-18 Chengxi Huang , Yongping Du , Haiping Wu , Hongjun Xiang , Kaiming Deng , Erjun Kan

We propose energy band engineering to enhance tunneling electroresistance (TER) in ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs). We predict that an ultrathin dielectric layer with a smaller band gap, embedded into a ferroelectric barrier layer,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-18 Jing Su , Xingwen Zheng , Zheng Wen , Tao Li , Shijie Xie , Karin M. Rabe , Xiaohui Liu , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) have attracted increasing research interest as a promising candidate for non-volatile memories. Recently, significant enhancements of tunneling electroresistance (TER) have been realized through…

In the quest for reliable and power-efficient memristive devices, ferroelectric tunnel junctions are being investigated as potential candidates. CMOS-compatible ferroelectric hafnium oxides are at the forefront. However, in epitaxial tunnel…

Ferroelectric control of two-dimensional magnetism is promising in fabricating electronic devices with high speed and low energy consumption. The newly discovered layered MnBi$_2$Te$_4$(Bi$_2$Te$_3$)$_n$ and their Sb counterparts exhibit…

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Strain-mediated multiferroic composites, i.e., piezoelectric-magnetostrictive heterostructures, hold profound promise for energy-efficient computing in beyond Moore's law era. While reading a bit of information stored in the…

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Multilayer edge molecular spintronics device (MEMSD) approach can produce novel logic and memory units for the computers. MEMSD are produced by bridging the molecular channels across the insulator, in the exposed edge region(s) of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-04 Pawan Tyagi

By performing first-principles calculations, we systematically explore the effect of epitaxial strain on the structure and properties of multiferroic TbMnO3. We show that, although the unstrained bulk TbMnO3 displays a non-collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Yusheng Hou , Jihui Yang , Xingao Gong , Hongjung Xiang

Ferroelectric films usually have phase states and physical properties very different from those of bulk ferroelectrics. Here we propose free-standing ferroelectric-elastic multilayers as a bridge between these two material systems. Using a…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-18 S. Prokhorenko , N. A. Pertsev

Magnetic tunnel junctions are nanoscale devices which have recently attracted interested in the context of frequency multiplexed spintronic neural networks, due to their interesting dynamical properties, which are defined during the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Maksim Stebliy , Alex S. Jenkins , Luana Benetti , Elvira Paz , Ricardo Ferreira

Ferroelectric tunnel junctions offer potential for non-volatile memory with low power, fast switching, and scalability, but their performance is limited by a high resistance-area product and a low tunnel electroresistance ratio. To address…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Balram Khattar , Adarsh Tripathi , Manmohan Brahma , Abhishek Sharma

Electric-field control of spin states offers a promising route to ultra-low-power, ultra-fast magnetization switching in spintronic devices such as magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). Recent progress in modulating spin-orbit interactions at…