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Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) play a crucial role in spintronic applications, particularly data storage and sensors. Especially as a non-volatile memory, MTJs have received substantial attention due to its CMOS compatibility, low power…

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin textures with a nontrivial topology that offer a potential for future magnetic memory and storage devices. The controlled formation and adjustment of size and density of magnetic skyrmions in Ta/CoFeB/MgO…

Flexible electronic devices require the integration of multiple crucial components on soft substrates to achieve their functions. In particular, memory devices are the fundamental component for data storage and processing in flexible…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-15 Li Ming Loong , Wonho Lee , Xuepeng Qiu , Ping Yang , Hiroyo Kawai , Mark Saeys , Jong-Hyun Ahn , Hyunsoo Yang

Metal-oxide memristors have emerged as promising candidates for hardware implementation of artificial synapses - the key components of high-performance, analog neuromorphic networks - due to their excellent scaling prospects. Since some…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-10 M. Prezioso , F. Merrikh-Bayat , B. Hoskins , K. Likharev , D. Strukov

Brain-inspired computing architectures attempt to emulate the computations performed in the neurons and the synapses in human brain. Memristors with continuously tunable resistances are ideal building blocks for artificial synapses. Through…

This paper presents a physics-based modeling framework for the analysis and transient simulation of circuits containing Spin-Transfer Torque (STT) Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) devices. The framework provides the tools to analyze the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Fernando García-Redondo , Pranay Prabhat , Mudit Bhargava , Cyrille Dray

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

The growing market and massive use of Internet of Things nodes is placing unprecedented demands of energy efficient hardware for edge computing and microwave devices. In particular, magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), as main building blocks…

Flexible electronics is an emerging field in many applications ranging from in vivo biomedical devices to wearable smart systems. The capability of conforming to curved surfaces opens the door to add electronic components to miniaturized…

Memristors are emerging as key electronic components that retain resistance states without power. Their non-volatile nature and ability to mimic synaptic behavior make them ideal for next-generation memory technologies and neuromorphic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Tongxin Chen , Yinyu Nie , Yafei Hao , Shengchun Shen , Jiajun Pan , Xiaoguang Li , Yuan Lu

The concept of Perpendicular Shape-Anisotropy Spin-Transfer-Torque Magnetic Random-Access Memory tackles the downsize scalability limit of conventional ultrathin magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) below sub-20 nm technological nodes. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 N. Caçoilo , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , B. Dieny , O. Fruchart , I. L. Prejbeanu

Ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJ) based on hafnium zirconium oxide (Hf1-xZrxO2; HZO) are a promising candidate for future applications, such as low-power memories and neuromorphic computing. The tunneling electroresistance (TER) is…

In neuromorphic computing, artificial synapses provide a multi-weight conductance state that is set based on inputs from neurons, analogous to the brain. Additional properties of the synapse beyond multiple weights can be needed, and can…

In our proof-of-principle study we examine the influence of skyrmions on magnetoresistive transport. In particular, we show that magnetic tunnel junctions are a technologically appealing and promising way for electrical detection of…

By integrating the local voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) effect, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) effect, and spin-orbit torque (SOT) effect, we propose a novel device structure for field-free magnetic tunnel junction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Rui Zhou , Haiyang Zhang , Hao Wang , Jin He , Qijun Huang , Sheng Chang

One method of creating and annihilating skyrmions in confined geometries is to use Voltage-Controlled Magnetic Anisotropy (VCMA) [1, 2, 3]. Previous study shows that robust voltage controlled ferromagnetic reversal from up to down state in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Md Mahadi Rajib , Walid Al Misba , Dhritiman Bhattacharya , Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Jayasimha Atulasimha

Nanoelectronic devices that mimic the functionality of synapses are a crucial requirement for performing cortical simulations of the brain. In this work we propose a ferromagnet-heavy metal heterostructure that employs spin-orbit torque to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Abhronil Sengupta , Zubair Al Azim , Xuanyao Fong , Kaushik Roy

Topologically protected spin textures, such as magnetic skyrmions, have the potential for dense data storage as well as energy-efficient computing due to their small size and a low driving current. The evaluation of the writing and reading…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-18 Aijaz H. Lone , Xuecui Zou , Debasis Das , Xuanyao Fong , Gianluca Setti , Hossein Fariborzi

Neuromorphic hardware as a non-Von Neumann architecture has better energy efficiency and parallelism than the conventional computer. Here, with numerical modeling spin-orbit torque (SOT) device using current-induced SOT and Joule heating…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Haotian Li , Liyuan Li , Kaiyuan Zhou , Chunjie Yan , Zhenyu Gao , Zishuang Li , Ronghua Liu

Spin transfer torque (STT) affords magnetic nanodevices the potential to act as memory, computing, and microwave elements operating at ultra-low currents and at a low energy cost. Spin transfer torque is not only effective in manipulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Y. Zhou , E. Iacocca , A. Awad , R. K. Dumas , F. C. Zhang , H. B. Braun , J. Åkerman