English
Related papers

Related papers: Hafnia-based Double Layer Ferroelectric Tunnel Jun…

200 papers

Ferroelectricity, especially in hafnia-based thin films at nanosizes, has been rejuvenated in the fields of low-power, nonvolatile and Si-compatible modern memory and logic applications. Despite tremendous efforts to explore the formation…

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

The continuous development of superconducting electronics is encouraging several studies on hybrid Josephson junctions (JJs) based on superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor (SFS) heterostructures, as either spintronic devices or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-20 H. G. Ahmad , R. Caruso , A. Pal , G. Rotoli , G. P. Pepe , M. G. Blamire , F. Tafuri , D. Massarotti

The success of a ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) depends on the asymmetry of electron tunneling as given by the tunneling electroresistance (TER) effect. This characteristic is mainly assessed considering three transport mechanisms:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Titus Sandu , Catalin Tibeica , Rodica Plugaru , Oana Nedelcu , Neculai Plugaru

Multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs), integrating ferroelectric and ferromagnetic functionalities within a single nanoscale device, hold significant promise for non-volatile, multi-state memory and innovative computing paradigms. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Wei Yang , Yibo Xu , Shen Li , Jiangchao Han , Jiayou Chen , Juan-Carlos Rojas-Sánchez , Stéphane Mangin , Xiaoyang Lin , Weisheng Zhao

Future applications of spin-orbit torque will require new mechanisms to improve the efficiency for switching nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), while also controlling the magnetic dynamics to achieve fast, nanosecond scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Shengjie Shi , Yongxi Ou , S. V. Aradhya , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

We investigate tunnel ferromagnetic Josephson junctions based on Superconductor-Insulator-thin superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor multilayers. A comparative study of their electrodynamic properties is performed for junctions with…

Complex oxide systems have attracted considerable attention because of their fascinating properties, including the magnetic ordering at the conducting interface between two band insulators, such as LaAlO3 (LAO) and SrTiO3 (STO). However,…

Control of magnetism without using magnetic fields enables large-scale integration of spintronic devices for memory, computation and communication in the beyond-CMOS era. Mechanisms including spin torque transfer, spin Hall effect, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 Jun-Yang Chen , Li He , Jian-Ping Wang , Mo Li

Magnetic random access memory that uses magnetic tunnel junction memory cells is a high performance, non-volatile memory technology that goes beyond traditional charge-based memories. Today its speed is limited by the high magnetization of…

Ferroelectric hafnium zirconium oxide (HZO) thin films show significant promise for applications in ferroelectric random-access memory, ferroelectric field-effect transistors, and ferroelectric tunneling junctions. However, there are…

Stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions (s-MTJs) are core components for spintronics-based probabilistic computing (p-computing), a promising candidate for energy-efficient unconventional computing. To achieve reliable performance under…

The spatiotemporal nature of neuronal behavior in spiking neural networks (SNNs) make SNNs promising for edge applications that require high energy efficiency. To realize SNNs in hardware, spintronic neuron implementations can bring…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Thomas Leonard , Samuel Liu , Harrison Jin , Jean Anne C. Incorvia

Emerging altermagnetic materials with vanishing net magnetizations and unique band structures have been envisioned as an ideal electrode to design antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions. Their momentum-resolved spin splitting in band structures…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-21 Boyuan Chi , Leina Jiang , Yu Zhu , Guoqiang Yu , Caihua Wan , Jia Zhang , Xiufeng Han

Since the first report of ferroelectricity in nanoscale HfO$_2$-based thin films in 2011, this silicon-compatible binary oxide has quickly garnered intense interest in academia and industry, and continues to do so. Despite its deceivingly…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-27 Tianyuan Zhu , Liyang Ma , Shiqing Deng , Shi Liu

Antiferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions (AFMTJs) enable picosecond switching and femtojoule writes through ultrafast sublattice dynamics. We present the first end-to-end AFMTJ simulation framework integrating multi-sublattice…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yousuf Choudhary , Tosiron Adegbija

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

Multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) have aroused significant interest due to their functional properties useful for non-volatile memory devices. So far, however, all the existing MFTJs have been based on perovskite-oxide heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Yurong Su , Xinlu Li , Meng Zhu , Jia Zhang , Long You , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Ferroelectric memristive devices based on hafnia are promising systems for neuromorphic electronics, yet the interplay between polarization-modulated resistive changes and defect-mediated transport often leads to complex and debated…

The persistent and switchable polarization of ferroelectric materials based on HfO$_2$-based ferroelectric compounds, compatible with large-scale integration, are attractive synaptic elements for neuromorphic computing. To achieve a record…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Laura Bégon-Lours , Mattia Halter , Youri Popoff , Zhenming Yu , Donato Francesco Falcone , Bert Jan Offrein