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Spin-transfer torques (STTs) can be exploited in order to manipulate the magnetic moments of nanomagnets, thus allowing for new consumer-oriented devices to be designed. Of particular interest here are tuneable radio-frequency (RF)…

Superparamagnetic tunnel junctions (sMTJs) are emerging as promising components for stochastic units in neuromorphic computing, owing to their tunable random switching behavior. Conventional MTJ control methods, such as spin-transfer torque…

Spin filtering and its back-action spin transfer torque (STT) are key ingredients of latest spintronic devices based on magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). Resonant tunneling (RT), implemented by design or occurring as parasitic effects, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Maciej Bazarnik , Anika Schlenhoff

We demonstrate excitation of ferromagnetic resonance in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) by the combined action of voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) and spin transfer torque (ST). Our measurements reveal that…

We propose a robust two-terminal electrical readout scheme for detecting the N\'eel vector orientation in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials by leveraging longitudinal nonreciprocal transport driven by quantum metric dipoles. Unlike…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-22 Guozhi Long , Hui Zeng , Mingxiang Pan , Wenhui Duan , Huaqing Huang

Control and detection of spin order in ferromagnets is the main principle allowing storing and reading of magnetic information in nowadays technology. The large class of antiferromagnets, on the other hand, is less utilized, despite its…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-23 P. Nemec , M. Fiebig , T. Kampfrath , A. V. Kimel

Recently, multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) have gained significant spotlight in the literature due to its high tunneling electro-resistance together with its non-volatility. In order to analyze such devices and to have insightful…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Robert Andrawis , Kaushik Roy

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

Magnetic phase transition tunnel magnetoresistance (MPT-TMR) effect with a single magnetic electrode has been investigated by first-principles calculations. The calculations show that the MPT-TMR of FeRh/MgO/Cu tunnel junction can be as…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-02 Jia Zhang , X. Z. Chen , C. Song , J. F. Feng , H. X. Wei , Jing-Tao Lü

Antiferromagnets naturally exhibit three obvious advantages over ferromagnets for memory device applications: insensitivity to external magnetic fields, much faster spin dynamics (~THz) and higher packing density due to the absence of any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Zhiqi Liu , Zexin Feng , Han Yan , Xiaoning Wang , Xiaorong Zhou , Peixin Qin , Huixin Guo , Ronghai Yu , Chengbao Jiang

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) with zero net magnetization are proposed as active elements in future spintronic devices. Depending on the critical thickness of the AFM thin films and the measurement temperature, bimetallic Mn-based alloys and…

Several experimental techniques have been introduced in recent years in attempts to measure spin transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). The dependence of spin torque on bias is important for understanding fundamental spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 Chen Wang , Yong-Tao Cui , Jordan A. Katine , Robert A. Buhrman , Daniel C. Ralph

Electrical detection of the 180 deg spin reversal, which is the basis of the operation of ferromagnetic memories, is among the outstanding challenges in the research of antiferromagnetic spintronics. Analogous effects to the ferromagnetic…

Magnetoelectric coupling is crucial for uncovering fundamental phenomena and advancing technologies in high-density data storage and energy-efficient devices. The emergence of altermagnets, which unify the advantages of ferromagnets and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions (sMTJ) using low-barrier nanomagnets have shown promise as fast, energy-efficient, and scalable building blocks for probabilistic computing. Despite recent experimental and theoretical progress, sMTJs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Kemal Selcuk , Shun Kanai , Rikuto Ota , Hideo Ohno , Shunsuke Fukami , Kerem Y. Camsari

Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) with a bottom pinned reference layer and a composite free layer (FL) are investigated. Different thicknesses of the FL were tested to obtain an optimal balance between tunneling…

Using theoretical arguments, we show that, in order to exploit half-metallic ferromagnets in tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) junctions, it is crucial to eliminate interface states at the Fermi level within the half-metallic gap; contrary…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Phivos Mavropoulos , Marjana Lezaic , Stefan Bluegel

As an unconventional magnet, altermagnetism attracts great interest in condensed matter physics and applies a new research platform for the spintronics. Since the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) effect is an important research aspect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Yu-Fei Sun , Yue Mao , Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) based on van der Waals (vdW) magnetic layers has been found to present excellent tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) property, which has great potential applications in field sensing, non-volatile magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 X. X. Ren , B. Liu , Xian Zhang , Ping Li , Zhi-Xin Guo

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 barriers are reported to show both tunneling magnetoresistance effect (TMR) and tunneling electroresistance effect (TER), displaying four resistance states by magnetic and electric field…