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Spin-orbitronics, based on both spin and orbital angular momentum, presents a promising pathway for energy-efficient memory and logic devices. Recent studies have demonstrated the emergence of orbital currents in light transition metals…

We measured the spin-orbit torques (SOTs), current-induced switching, and domain wall (DW) motion in synthetic ferrimagnets consisting of Co/Tb layers with differing stacking order grown on a Pt underlayer. We find that the SOTs, magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-06 Mickey Martini , Can Onur Avci , Silvia Tacchi , Charles-Henri Lambert , Pietro Gambardella

The common feature of nearly all logic and memory devices is that they make use of stable units to represent 0's and 1's. A completely different paradigm is based on three-terminal stochastic units which could be called "p-bits", where the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Ahmed Zeeshan Pervaiz , Lakshmi Anirudh Ghantasala , Kerem Yunus Camsari , Supriyo Datta

Recently spin-transistors receive considerable attention as a highly-functional building block of future integrated circuits. In order to realize spin-transistors, it is essential that technology of efficient spin injection/detection for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-29 Y. Shuto , R. Nakane , H. Sukegawa , S. Yamamoto , M. Tanaka , K. Inomata , S. Sugahara

Spin current and spin torque generation through the spin-orbit interactions in solids, of bulk or interfacial origin, is at the heart of spintronics research. The realization of spin-orbit torque (SOT) driven magnetic dynamics and switching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Minh-Hai Nguyen , Chi-Feng Pai

Stochastic neurons are efficient hardware accelerators for solving a large variety of combinatorial optimization problems. "Binary" stochastic neurons (BSN) are those whose states fluctuate randomly between two levels +1 and -1, with the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Rahnuma Rahman , Samiran Ganguly , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

Current-induced magnetization switching by spin-orbit torque (SOT) holds considerable promise for next generation ultralow-power memory and logic applications. In most cases, generation of spin-orbit torques has relied on an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Yu Sheng , Yi Cao , Kevin William Edmonds , Yang Ji , Houzhi Zheng , Kaiyou Wang

This work represents integration of MTJ with 30nm FinFET for low voltage analog write operations and readout optimization for the p-bit or true random number generator (TRNG), where the induced p-bit, the probabilistic state of the magnetic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Thomas Egler , Hans Dittmann , Sunanda Thunder , Artur Useinov

The success of the transistor as the cornerstone of digital computation motivates analogous efforts to identify an equivalent hardware primitive, the probabilistic bit or p-bit, for the emerging paradigm of probabilistic computing. Here, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Abir Hasan , Nikhil Shukla

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…

This work presents an equivalent circuit model for Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs) that accurately captures their magnetization dynamics and electrical behavior. Implemented in LTspice, the model is validated against direct numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Steven Louis , Hannah Bradley , Artem Litvinenko , Vasyl Tyberkevych

Ising spin model is considered as an efficient computing method to solve combinatorial optimization problems based on its natural tendency of convergence towards low energy state. The underlying basic functions facilitating the Ising model…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Yong Shim , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Kaushik Roy

In this paper we present a concrete design for a probabilistic (p-) computer based on a network of p-bits, robust classical entities fluctuating between -1 and +1, with probabilities that are controlled through an input constructed from the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Brian Sutton , Rafatul Faria , Lakshmi A. Ghantasala , Risi Jaiswal , Kerem Y. Camsari , Supriyo Datta

Integrating conventional superconductors with common III-V semiconductors provides a versatile platform to implement tunable Josephson junctions (JJs) and their applications. We propose that with gate-controlled time-dependent spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-09 David Monroe , Mohammad Alidoust , Igor Žutić

Probabilistic spin logic (PSL) is a recently proposed computing paradigm based on unstable stochastic units called probabilistic bits (p-bits) that can be correlated to form probabilistic circuits (p-circuits). These p-circuits can be used…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Ahmed Zeeshan Pervaiz , Brian M. Sutton , Lakshmi Anirudh Ghantasala , Kerem Y. Camsari

Processing-in-memory (PIM) reduces data transfer latency by rolling memory and logic elements into one compute location. As an emergent material candidate for such an architecture, we propose a strained Weyl semimetal based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Youjian Chen , Hamed Vakili , Md Golam Morshed , Avik W. Ghosh

The authors proposed and computationally analyzed nonvolatile static random access memory (NV-SRAM) architecture using metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) type of spin-transistors referred to as pseudo-spin-MOSFET…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-21 Yusuke Shuto , Shuu'ichirou Yamamoto , Satoshi Sugahara

Recently, spin-transfer torque (STT) based magnetization switching has been widely utilized in magnetic resistance-based memories, which have broad applications in microcontroller units and other devices. This study utilizes a macrospin…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Tomoki Watanabe , Keisuke Yamada , Yoshinobu Nakatani

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

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) magnetoresistance (MR) devices have attracted attention for use in next-generation MR devices. The SOT devices are known to exhibit different write properties based on the relative angle between the magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Yohei Shiokawa , Eiji Komura , Yugo Ishitani , Atsushi Tsumita , Keita Suda , Kosuke Hamanaka , Tomohiro Taniguchi , Tomoyuki Sasaki