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Ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs), which consist of two metal electrodes separated by a thin ferroelectric barrier, have recently aroused significant interest for technological applications as nanoscale resistive switching devices. So…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-09 Jun Ding , Ding-Fu Shao , Ming Li , Li-Wei Wen , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We show that a surface acoustic wave (SAW) applied across the terminals of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) decreases both the (time-averaged) parallel and antiparallel resistances of the MTJ, with the latter decreasing much more than the…

We investigate switching of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) driven by the thermal effect of the transport current through the junctions. The switching occurs in a specially designed composite free layer, which acts as one of the MTJ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. F. Kravets , D. M. Polishchuk , V. A. Pashchenko , A. I. Tovstolytkin , V. Korenivski

We study spin-transfer-torque driven magnetization dynamics of a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) nanopillar. Based on the combination of spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance and microwave spectroscopy techniques, we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Kaiyuan Zhou , Lina Chen , Kequn Chi , Qingwei Fu , Zui Tao , Like Liang , Zhenyu Gao , Haotian Li , Hao Meng , Bo Liu , Tiejun Zhou , R. H. Liu

We investigate the dependence of perpendicular and parallel spin transfer torque (STT) and tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) on the insulator barrier energy in the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). We employed single orbit tight binding model…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Chun-Yeol You , Jae-Ho Han , Hyun-Woo Lee

A ferroelectric tunnel barrier in between two ferromagnetic electrodes (multiferroic tunnel junction, MFTJ), is one of the most promising concepts for future microelectronic devices. In parallel, Hafnia based ferroelectrics are showing…

Magnetic semiconductors are a powerful platform for understanding, utilizing and tuning the interplay between magnetic order and electronic transport. Compared to bulk crystals, two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors have greater…

The discovery of spin torque transfer (STT) has lead to a significant advance in the development of spintronic devices. Novel structures and materials have been studied in order to improve the performance of the magnetic tunnel junctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-24 Xiaofeng Yao , Yisong Zhang , Andrew Lyle , Roger Malmhall , Rajiv Ranjan , Lei Lu , Mingzhong Wu , Hao Wang , Ying Jing , Jian-Ping Wang

Domain-wall memory (DWM) has SRAM class access performance, low energy, high endurance, high density, and CMOS compatibility. Recently, shift reliability and processing-using-memory (PuM) proposals developed a need to count the number of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Prayash Dutta , Albert Lee , Kang L. Wang , Alex K. Jones , Sanjukta Bhanja

Voltage-induced dynamic switching in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) is a writing technique for voltage-controlled magnetoresistive random access memory (VCMRAM), which is expected to be an ultimate non-volatile memory with ultra-low power…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Rie Matsumoto , Shinji Yuasa , Hiroshi Imamura

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

Interfaces between twisted 2D materials host a wealth of physical phenomena originating from the long-scale periodicity associated with the resulting moire structure. Besides twisting, an alternative route to create structures with…

Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is the key component to enable information access and increasing number of MTJs is integrated to develop high-density spintronic devices. However, continuous miniaturization of the conventional MTJs is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Yue Zhao , Bin Xiao , Jiawei Liu , Hui Zeng , Jun Zhao

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

Van der Waals (vdW) tunnel junctions are attractive due to their atomically sharp interface, gate tunablity, and robustness against lattice mismatch between the successive layers. However, the negative differential resistance (NDR)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Nithin Abraham , Krishna Murali , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kausik Majumdar

Two promising strategies for achieving efficient control of magnetization in future magnetic memory and non-volatile spin logic devices are spin transfer torque from spin polarized currents and voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA).…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-06 Luqiao Liu , Chi-Feng Pai , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

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

Large magnetoresistance effect controlled by electric field rather than magnetic field or electric current is a preferable routine for designing low power consumption magnetoresistance-based spintronic devices. Here we propose an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Yurong Su , Jia Zhang , Jing-Tao Lü , Jeongmin Hong , Long You

In spintronics, one of the long standing questions is why the MgO-based magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is almost the only option to achieve a large tunnelling magnetoresistance (TMR) ratio at room temperature (RT) but not as large as the…

Magnetic van der Waals (vdW) materials offer a fantastic platform to investigate and exploit rich spin configurations stabilized in reduced dimensions. One tantalizing magnetic order is the interlayer antiferromagnetism in A-type vdW…