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Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) based on van der Waals (vdW) magnetic layers has been found to present excellent tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) property, which has great potential applications in field sensing, non-volatile magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 X. X. Ren , B. Liu , Xian Zhang , Ping Li , Zhi-Xin Guo

With the broad recent research on ferroelectric hafnium oxide for non-volatile memory technology, depolarization effects in HfO2-based ferroelectric devices gained a lot of interest. Understanding the physical mechanisms regulating the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Luca Fehlings , Thomas Mikolajick , Beatriz Noheda , Erika Covi

We investigate Magnetic Josephson Junction (MJJ) - a superconducting device with ferromagnetic barrier for a scalable high-density cryogenic memory compatible with energy-efficient single flux quantum (SFQ) circuits. The…

The minority-spin Fe/MgO interface states are at the Fermi level in density functional theory (DFT), but experimental evidence and GW calculations place them slightly higher in energy. This small shift can strongly influence tunneling…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-15 G. G. Baez Flores , M. van Schilfgaarde , K. D. Belashchenko

Current Induced Resistance Switching (CIS) was recently observed in thin tunnel junctions with ferromagnetic (FM) electrodes \emph{i.e} FM/I/FM. This effect was attributed to electromigration of metallic atoms in nanoconstrictions in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Ventura , J. B. Sousa , Y. Liu , Z. Zhang , P. P. Freitas

Electrical-controllable antiferromagnet tunnel junction is a key goal in spintronics, holding immense promise for ultra-dense and ultra-stable antiferromagnetic memory with high processing speed for modern information technology. Here, we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Lei Han , Xuming Luo , Yingqian Xu , Hua Bai , Wenxuan Zhu , Yuxiang Zhu , Guoqiang Yu , Cheng Song , Feng Pan

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

The authors studied an effect of ferromagnetic (Co20Fe60B20 or Fe) layer insertion on tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) properties of MgO-barrier magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with CoFe/Pd multilayer electrodes. TMR ratio in MTJs with…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Mizunuma , S. Ikeda , J. H. Park , H. Yamamoto , H. Gan , K. Miura , H. Hasegawa , J. Hayakawa , F. Matsukura , H. Ohno

Silicon ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FeFETs) with low-k interfacial layer (IL) between ferroelectric gate stack and silicon channel suffers from high write voltage, limited write endurance and large read-after-write latency due…

Van der Waals multiferroic tunnel junctions (vdW-MFTJs) with multiple nonvolatile resistive states are highly suitable for new physics and next-generation storage electronics. However, currently reported vdW-MFTJs are based on two types of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-08 Zhi Yan , Ruixia Yang , Cheng Fang , Wentian Lu , Xiaohong Xu

A Ferroelectric Analog Non-Volatile Memory based on a WOx electrode and ferroelectric HfZrO$_4$ layer is fabricated at a low thermal budget (~375$^\circ$C), enabling BEOL processes and CMOS integration. The devices show suitable properties…

Recent studies on the electrical switching of tetragonal antiferromagnet (AFM) via N{\'e}el spin-orbit torque have paved the way for the economic use of antiferromagnetic materials. The most difficult obstacle that presently limits the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-04 Xing-Tao Jia , Xiao-Lin Cai , Yu Jia

We have experimentally demonstrated the effectiveness of beta-gallium oxide (beta-Ga2O3) ferroelectric fin field-effect transistors (Fe-FinFETs) for the first time. Atomic layer deposited (ALD) hafnium zirconium oxide (HZO) is used as the…

The transport properties of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are very sensitive to interface modifications. In this work we investigate both experimentally and theoretically the effect of asymmetric barrier modifications on the bias…

Neuromorphic computing architectures enable the dense co-location of memory and processing elements within a single circuit. This co-location removes the communication bottleneck of transferring data between separate memory and computing…

Semiconducting ferroelectric materials with low energy polarisation switching offer a platform for next-generation electronics such as ferroelectric field-effect transistors. Ferroelectric domains at symmetry-broken interfaces of transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Laurent Molino , Leena Aggarwal , Vladimir Enaldiev , Ryan Plumadore , Vladimir Falko , Adina Luican-Mayer

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…

Ferromagnetic half-metal Co$_2$CrAl films and tunnel contacts Co$_2$CrAl - insulator (I) - Pb are fabricated and investigated. It is found that the normalized differential conductivity $\sigma ^{\rm FS} $ of such tunnel junctions with low…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-03-29 E. M. Rudenko , I. V. Korotash , Y. V. Shlapak , Y. V. Kudryavtsev , A. A. Krakovnyi , M. V. Dyakin

We report on the fabrication of Nb/AlO_x/Pd_{0.82}Ni_{0.18}/Nb superconductor/insulator/ferromagnetic metal/superconductor (SIFS) Josephson junctions with high critical current densities, large normal resistance times area products, high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-08-05 G. Wild , C. Probst , A. Marx , R. Gross

Arrays of Vortex Transitional (VT) memory cells with functional density up to $1 Mbit/cm^2$ have been designed, fabricated, and successfully demonstrated. This progress is due to recent advances in design optimization and in superconductor…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Vasili K. Semenov , Yuri A. Polyakov , Sergey K. Tolpygo