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We review two magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) approaches for compact, low-power, CMOS-integrated true random number generation (TRNG). The first employs passive-read, easy-plane superparamagnetic MTJs (sMTJs) that generate…

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Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) is a leading emergent memory technology that is poised to replace current non-volatile memory technologies such as eFlash. However, the scaling of MRAM technologies is heavily affected by…

Stochastic spiking neural networks based on nanoelectronic spin devices can be a possible pathway to achieving "brainlike" compact and energy-effcient cognitive intelligence. The computational model attempt to exploit the intrinsic device…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Chamika M. Liyanagedera , Abhronil Sengupta , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Kaushik Roy

Efficient generation of spin currents from charge currents is of high importance for memory and logic applications of spintronics. In particular, generation of spin currents from charge currents in high spin-orbit coupling metals has the…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have shown capabilities of achieving high accuracy under unsupervised settings and low operational power/energy due to their bio-plausible computations. Previous studies identified that DRAM-based off-chip…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

Memristors are non-volatile nano-resistors. Their resistance can be tuned by applied currents or voltages and set to a large number of levels between two limit values. Thanks to these properties, memristors are ideal building blocks for a…

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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

Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) and spin-orbit torque magnetic random access memory (SOT-MRAM) have significant advantages compared to conventional SRAM due to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Ahmet Inci , Mehmet Meric Isgenc , Diana Marculescu

Near-field magnetic resonance wireless power transfer (WPT) technology has garnered significant attention due to its broad application prospects in medical implants, electric vehicles, and robotics. Addressing the challenges faced by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Likai Wang , Yuqian Wang , Shengyu Hu , Yunhui Li , Hong Chen , Ce Wang , Zhiwei Guo

Reliable operation of perpendicular spin-transfer-torque magnetic random-access memory (p-STT-MRAM) requires control of magnetic alignment within the synthetic antiferromagnet (SAF) reference layer. At nanopillar dimensions, however,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Afan Terko , George Lertzman-Lepofsky , Dieter Suess , Claas Abert , Erol Girt

Multilayered artificial neural networks (ANN) have found widespread utility in classification and recognition applications. The scale and complexity of such networks together with the inadequacies of general purpose computing platforms have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Parami Wijesinghe , Syed Shakib Sarwar , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Kaushik Roy

Recent work [1,2] suggests that ferromagnetic reversal with spin transfer torque (STT) requires more current in a system in the presence of DMI than switching a typical ferromagnet of the same dimensions and perpendicular magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Dhritiman Bhattacharya , Md. Mamun Al-Rashid , Jayasimha Atulasimha

Nanometallic devices based on amorphous insulator-metal thin films are developed to provide a novel non-volatile resistance-switching random-access memory (RRAM). In these devices, data recording is controlled by a bipolar voltage, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-08 Xiang Yang

Electrochemical random-access memory (ECRAM) is a recently developed and highly promising analog resistive memory element for in-memory computing. One longstanding challenge of ECRAM is attaining retention time beyond a few hours. This…

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Stochastic computing (SC) offers significant reductions in hardware complexity for traditional convolutional neural networks(CNNs). However, despite its advantages, stochastic computing neural networks (SCNNs) often suffer from high…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Sheng Lu , Qianhou Qu , Sungyong Jung , Qilian Liang , Chenyun Pan

Pr1-xCaxMnO3 (PCMO) based resistance random access memory (RRAM) is attractive in large scale memory and neuromorphic applications as it is non-filamentary, area scalable and has multiple resistance states along with excellent endurance and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Sandip Lashkare , Udayan Ganguly

The growing energy demands of information and communication technologies, driven by data-intensive computing and the von Neumann bottleneck, underscore the need for energy-efficient alternatives. Resistive random-access memory (RRAM)…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Md Tawsif Rahman Chowdhury , Alireza Moazzeni , Gozde Tutuncuoglu

Whereas contemporary Error Correcting Codes (ECC) designs occupy a significant fraction of total die area in chip-multiprocessors (CMPs), approaches to deal with the vulnerability increase of CMP architecture against Single Event Upsets…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Navid Khoshavi , Armin Samiei

We demonstrate for the first time full-scale integration of top-pinned perpendicular MTJ on 300 mm wafer using CMOS-compatible processes for spin-orbit torque (SOT)-MRAM architectures. We show that 62 nm devices with a W-based SOT…

Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is gaining popularity due to its ability to offer computing within the memory and its non-volatile nature. The unique properties of RRAM, such as binary switching, multi-state switching, and device…

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