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We present the first experimental demonstration of a neuromorphic network with magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) synapses, which performs image recognition via vector-matrix multiplication. We also simulate a large MTJ network performing MNIST…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Peng Zhou , Alexander J. Edwards , Fred B. Mancoff , Dimitri Houssameddine , Sanjeev Aggarwal , Joseph S. Friedman

We investigate the dependence of perpendicular and parallel spin transfer torque (STT) and tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) on the insulator barrier energy in the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). We employed single orbit tight binding model…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Chun-Yeol You , Jae-Ho Han , Hyun-Woo Lee

Probabilistic computers offer promising solutions for computationally hard problems in domains such as combinatorial optimization and machine learning. A key building block in these systems is the probabilistic bit (p-bit), which relies on…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ju-Young Yoon , Nuno Cacoilo , Advait Madhavan , Jabez J. McClelland , Shun Kanai , Hideo Ohno , Shunsuke Fukami , William A. Borders

The critical current density $J_{c0}$ required for switching the magnetization of the free layer (FL) in a spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) cell is proportional to the product of the damping parameter,…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics has emerged as a subfield of spintronics, where an AFM N\'eel vector is used as a state variable. Efficient electric control and detection of the N\'eel vector are critical for spintronic applications.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-07 Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We have measured the relaxation time of a thermally unstable ferromagnetic nanoparticle incorporated into a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) as a function of applied magnetic field, voltage V (-0.38 V < V < +0.26 V), and temperatures (283 K<…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 William Rippard , Ranko Heindl , Matthew Pufall , Stephen Russek , Anthony Kos

Giant tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) ratios of 417% at room temperature (RT) and 914% at 3 K were demonstrated in epitaxial Fe/MgO/Fe(001) exchanged-biased spin-valve magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) by tuning growth conditions for each…

Neural dynamics is often investigated with tools from bifurcation theory. However, many neuron models are stochastic, mimicking fluctuations in the input from unknown parts of the brain or the spiking nature of signals. Noise changes the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-11 Jonas Stapmanns , Tobias Kühn , David Dahmen , Thomas Luu , Carsten Honerkamp , Moritz Helias

The rapid development of the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) spin torque oscillator (STO) technology demands an analytical model to enable building MTJ STO-based circuits and systems so as to evaluate and utilize MTJ STOs in various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Tingsu Chen , Anders Eklund , Ezio Iacocca , Saul Rodriguez , Gunnar Malm , Johan Åkerman , Ana Rusu

We study stochastic ratchets with inertia in the limit where the time correlations become important. We have developed a Fokker-Planck type equation for the ratchet problem which includes the memory effects. It is tested with comparison to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Kececioglu , B. Tanatar , M. Cemal Yalabik

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

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), composed of two ferromagnetic electrodes separated by a thin insulating barrier layer, are currently used in spintronic devices, such as magnetic sensors and magnetic random access memories. Recently,…

We present a general formalism for the construction of thermodynamically consistent stochastic models of non-linear electronic circuits. The devices constituting the circuit can have arbitrary I-V curves and may include tunnel junctions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-29 Nahuel Freitas , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Massimiliano Esposito

Recent research has indicated that introducing impurities that increase the resistivity of Pt can enhance the efficiency of the spin Hall torque it generates. Here we directly demonstrate the usefulness of this strategy by fabricating…

Graphical probabilistic circuit models of stochastic computing are more powerful than the predominant deep learning models, but also have more demanding requirements. For example, they require "programmable stochasticity", e.g. generating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 M. T. McCray , Md Ahsanul Abeed , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

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…

Ferroelectric polarization switching in electrically controlled van der Waals multiferroic tunnel junctions (vdW-MFTJs) causes atomic migration, compromising device stability and fatigue resistance. Here we propose a fully magnetically…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-20 Zhi Yan , Xujin Zhang , Jianhua Xiao , Cheng Fang , Xiaohong Xu

We measured the shot noise in fully epitaxial Fe/MgAl2OX/Fe-based magnetic tunneling junctions (MTJs). While the Fano factor to characterize the shot noise is very close to unity in the antiparallel configuration, it is reduced to 0.98 in…

Artificial neural networks can harness stochasticity in multiple ways to enable a vast class of computationally powerful models. Electronic implementation of such stochastic networks is currently limited to addition of algorithmic noise to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Abhinav Parihar , Matthew Jerry , Suman Datta , Arijit Raychowdhury

In combinatorial optimization, probabilistic Ising machines (PIMs) have gained significant attention for their acceleration of Monte Carlo sampling with the potential to reduce time-to-solution in finding approximate ground states. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-18 Shuhan Yang , Andrea Grimaldi , Youwei Bao , Eleonora Raimondo , Jia Si , Giovanni Finocchio , Hyunsoo Yang