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Spintronic devices as alternatives to traditional semiconductor-based electronic devices attract considerable interest as they offer zero quiescent power, built-in memory, scalability, and reconfigurability. To realize spintronic logic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-04 Seung-heon Chris Baek , Kyung-Woong Park , Deok-Sin Kil , Kyung-Jin Lee , Byong-Guk Park

Artificial modulation of a neuronal subset through ion channels activation can initiate firing patterns of an entire neural circuit in vivo. As nanovalves in the cell membrane, voltage-gated ion channels can be artificially controlled by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Kai Wu , Diqing Su , Renata Saha , Jian-Ping Wang

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

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for vision, classification, and inference problems. An artificial neuron sums N weighted inputs and passes the result through a non-linear transfer…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Deliang Fan , Yong Shim , Anand Raghunathan , Kaushik Roy

We present a novel design of a strained topological insulator spin-orbit torque random access memory (STI-SOTRAM) bit cell comprising a piezoelectric/magnet (gating)/topological insulator (TI)/magnet (storage) heterostructure that leverages…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Md Golam Morshed , Hamed Vakili , Mohammad Nazmus Sakib , Samiran Ganguly , Mircea R. Stan , Avik W. Ghosh

Replacing the ferromagnet with ferrimagnet (FiM) in the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) allows faster magnetization switching in picoseconds. The operation of a memory cell that consists of the MTJ and a transistor requires reversable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Zhuo Xu , Zhengping Yuan , Xue Zhang , Zhengde Xu , Yixiao Qiao , Yumeng Yang , Zhifeng Zhu

Increasing dampinglike spin-orbit torque (SOT) is both of fundamental importance for enabling new research into spintronics phenomena and also technologically urgent for advancing low-power spin-torque memory, logic, and oscillator devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Lijun Zhu , Lujun Zhu , Shengjie Shi , Manling Sui , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Spin-orbit torques (SOTs), which rely on spin current generation from charge current in a nonmagnetic material, promise an energy-efficient scheme for manipulating magnetization in magnetic devices. A critical topic for spintronic devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Yuting Liu , Qiming Shao

Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) based Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (STT-MRAM) is poised to replace embedded Flash for advanced applications such as automotive microcontroller units. To achieve deeper technological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Nicholas A. Lanzillo , Sergey Faleev , Aakash Pushp

Stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions (s-MTJ) is a promising component of probabilistic bit (p-bit), which plays a pivotal role in probabilistic computers. For a standard cell structure of the p-bit, s-MTJ is desired to be insensitive to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Rikuto Ota , Keito Kobayashi , Keisuke Hayakawa , Shun Kanai , Kerem Y. Çamsarı , Hideo Ohno , Shunsuke Fukami

Spin-orbit torques (SOTs) have been widely understood as an interfacial transfer of spin that is independent of the bulk properties of the magnetic layer. Here, we report that SOTs acting on ferrimagnetic FexTb1-x layers decrease and vanish…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-04 Lijun Zhu , Daniel C Ralph

The discovery of an ever increasing family of atomic layered magnetic materials, together with the already established vast catalogue of strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and topological systems, calls for some guiding principles to tailor…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-13 Hidekazu Kurebayashi , Jose H. Garcia , Safe Khan , Jairo Sinova , Stephan Roche

Current-induced spin-orbit torques provide a versatile tool for switching magnetic devices. In perpendicular magnets, the dampinglike component of the torque is the main driver of magnetization reversal. The degree to which the fieldlike…

Spin-orbit torque is a promising mechanism for writing magnetic memories, while field-effect transistors are the gold-standard device for logic operation. The spin-orbit torque field effect transistor (SOTFET) is a proposed device that…

Spin-orbit torques (SOT) allow the electrical control of magnetic states. Current-induced SOT switching of the perpendicular magnetization is of particular technological importance. The SOT consists of damping-like and field-like torques so…

We report time-resolved measurements of magnetization switching by spin-orbit torques in the absence of an external magnetic field in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ). Field-free switching is enabled by the dipolar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Viola Krizakova , Kevin Garello , Eva Grimaldi , Gouri Sankar Kar , Pietro Gambardella

Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin under applied current, and control magnetization dynamics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 A. Manchon , J. Zelezný , I. M. Miron , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , A. Thiaville , K. Garello , P. Gambardella

Ensuring high performance, while meeting the power budget is a challenging task as the world is moving towards next-generation computing. Researchers and designers are in search of new solutions for efficient computation. Spintronics…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Jagadish Rajpoot , Ravneet Paul , Shivam Verma

Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) has emerged as a promising method for achieving energy-efficient magnetization switching in advanced spintronic devices. However, technological advancement has been inadequate because an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Badsha Sekh , Hasibur Rahaman , Ramu Maddu , Pinkesh Kumar Mishra , Tianli Jin , S. N. Piramanayagam

Recent observations of current-induced magnetization switching at ferromagnet/normal-conductor interfaces have important consequences for future magnetic memory technology. In one interpretation, the switching originates from carriers with…