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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…

Ferroelectric tunneling junctions (FTJ) are considered to be the intrinsically most energy efficient memristors. In this work, specific electrical features of ferroelectric hafnium-zirconium oxide based FTJ devices are investigated.…

HfO2-based ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) exhibit attractive properties for adoption in neuromorphic applications. The combination of ultra-low-power multi-level switching capability together with the low on-current density suggests…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Suzanne Lancaster , Quang T. Duong , Erika Covi , Thomas Mikolajick , Stefan Slesazeck

Ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) harness the unique combination of ferroelectricity and quantum tunneling, and thus herald new opportunities in next-generation nonvolatile memory technologies. Recent advancements in the fabrication of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 King-Fa Luo , Zhijun Ma , Daniel Sando , Qi Zhang , Nagarajan Valanoor

The human brain achieves exceptional energy efficiency by co-locating memory and processing, yet reproducing this principle in hardware remains challenging because many neuromorphic devices require standby power, offer limited…

We present a low barrier magnet based compact hardware unit for analog stochastic neurons and demonstrate its use as a building-block for neuromorphic hardware. By coupling circular magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with a CMOS based analog…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Samiran Ganguly , Kerem Y. Camsari , Avik W. Ghosh

This paper proposes a novel spiking artificial neuron design based on a combined spin valve/magnetic tunnel junction (SV/MTJ). Traditional hardware used in artificial intelligence and machine learning faces significant challenges related to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Steven Louis , Hannah Bradley , Cody Trevillian , Andrei Slavin , Vasyl Tyberkevych

CMOS-compatible HfO2-based ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) has attracted significant attention as a promising candidate for in-memory computing (IMC) due to its extremely low power consumption. However, conventional FTJs face inherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Shi-Xi Kong , Tuo-Hung Hou

The multiple ferroelectric polarization tuned by external electric field could be used to simulate the biological synaptic weight. Ferroelectric synaptic devices have two advantages compared with other reported ones: One is the intrinsic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Bobo Tian , Ni Zhong , Chungang Duan

In ferroelectric materials, spontaneous symmetry breaking leads to a switchable electric polarization, which offers significant promise for nonvolatile memories. In particular, ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) have emerged as a new…

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

We present an in-house modelling framework for Ferroelectric Tunnelling Junctions (FTJ), and an insightful study of the design of FTJs as synaptic devices. Results show that a moderately low-k tunnelling dielectric (e.g. SiO2) can increase…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Riccardo Fontanini , Marco Massarotto , Ruben Specogna , Francesco Driussi , Mirko Loghi , David Esseni

The desire to empower resource-limited edge devices with computer vision (CV) must overcome the high energy consumption of collecting and processing vast sensory data. To address the challenge, this work proposes an energy-efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Gourav Datta , Peter A. Beerel , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

The electrically readable complex dynamics of robust and scalable magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) offer promising opportunities for advancing neuromorphic computing. In this work, we present an MTJ design with a free layer and two…

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

Ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) leverage polarization-dependent tunneling through ultrathin barriers to enable two-terminal, non-volatile memory and logic. Although conceptually appealing, the practical implementation of conventional…

We present the design and numerical simulation of a spiking neuron capable of on-chip machine learning. Built within the CMOS+X framework, the spiking neuron consists of an NMOS transistor combined with a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ).…

Brain-inspired computing architectures attempt to mimic the computations performed in the neurons and the synapses in the human brain in order to achieve its efficiency in learning and cognitive tasks. In this work, we demonstrate the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Abhronil Sengupta , Priyadarshini Panda , Parami Wijesinghe , Yusung Kim , Kaushik Roy

Electrical-controllable antiferromagnet tunnel junction is a key goal in spintronics, holding immense promise for ultra-dense and ultra-stable antiferromagnetic memory with high processing speed for modern information technology. Here, we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Lei Han , Xuming Luo , Yingqian Xu , Hua Bai , Wenxuan Zhu , Yuxiang Zhu , Guoqiang Yu , Cheng Song , Feng Pan

Antiferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions (AFMTJs) offer picosecond switching and high integration density for in-memory computing, but their ultrafast dynamics and low tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) make state-of-the-art MRAM interfaces…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yousuf Choudhary , Tosiron Adegbija
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