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Magnetic tunnel junction-based molecular spintronics devices (MTJMSDs) are designed by covalently connecting the paramagnetic molecules across two ferromagnets (FM) electrodes of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). MTJMSD provides…

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…

Electrical manipulation of antiferromagnets with specific symmetries offers the prospect of creating novel, antiferromagnetic spintronic devices. Such devices aim to make use of the insensitivity to external magnetic fields and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 Markus Meinert , Dominik Graulich , Tristan Matalla-Wagner

Spintronics has attracted wide attention by promising novel functionalities derived from both the electron charge and spin. While branching into new areas and creating new themes over the past years, the principal goals remain the spin and…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-05 C. Ertler , A. Matos-Abiague , M. Gmitra , M. Turek , J. Fabian

This paper addresses the question: Can spintronic circuits based on Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) transducers outperform their state-of-the-art CMOS counterparts? To this end, we use the EPFL combinational benchmark sets, synthesize them…

Superparamagnetic magnetic tunnel junctions (sMTJs) are promising components for true random number generation and probabilistic computing. Achieving high-frequency fluctuation while maintaining reliable control over output level is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Qi Jia , Jian-Ping Wang

As an emerging non-volatile memory technology, magnetic random access memory (MRAM) has key features and advantages including non-volatility, high speed, endurance, low power consumption and radiation tolerance. Conventional MRAM utilizes…

Spin-based electronics or spintronics is an emerging field, in which we try to utilize spin degrees of freedom as well as charge transport in materials and devices. While metal-based spin-devices, such as magnetic-field sensors and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-13 Masaaki Tanaka , Shinobu Ohya , Pham Nam Hai

The exceptional properties of two-dimensional (2D) magnet materials present a novel approach to fabricate functional magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) by constructing full van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures with atomically sharp and clean…

We present the concept of ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs). These junctions consist of two metal electrodes separated by a nanometer-thick ferroelectric barrier. The current-voltage characteristics of FTJs are analyzed under the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Kohlstedt , N. A. Pertsev , J. Rodriguez Contreras , R. Waser

We propose an all-electric implementation of a precessionally switched perpendicular magnetic anisotropy magneto-tunneling-junction (p-MTJ) based toggle memory cell where data is written with voltage-controlled-magnetic-anisotropy (VCMA)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Justine L. Drobitch , Md Ahsanul Abeed , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

We observe spin-valve-like effects in nano-scaled thermally evaporated Co/AlOx/Au tunnel junctions. The tunneling magnetoresistance is anisotropic and depends on the relative orientation of the magnetization direction of the Co electrode…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. S. Liu , L. Michalak , C. M. Canali , L. Samuelson , H. Pettersson

Strain-controlled modulation of the magnetic switching behavior in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) could provide the energy efficiency needed to accelerate the use of MTJs in memory, logic, and neuromorphic computing, as well as an…

Considering the similarity of the real-space configurations for the opposite spin sublattices in both antiferromagnets (AFM) and altermagnets (AM), the relationship between them should be profound. In this work, we demonstrate that AFM and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-16 P. Zhou , X. N. Peng , Y. Z. Hu , B. R. Pan , S. M. Liu , Pengbo Lyu , L. Z. Sun

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have opened new opportunities to develop atomically thin (opto)electronic devices with a wide range of functionalities. The recent focus on manipulating the interlayer twist angle has led to the…

As Moore's law is gradually losing its effectiveness, developing alternative high-speed and low-energy-consuming information technology with post-silicon advanced materials is urgently needed. The successful application of tunneling…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-12 Lishu Zhang , Jun Zhou , Hui Li , Lei Shen , Yuan Ping Feng

The spin-phase interference effects are studied analytically in resonant quantum tunneling of the N\'{e}el vector between degenerate excited levels in nanometer-scale single-domain antiferromagnets in the absence of an external magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rong Lu , Jia-Lin Zhu , Yi Zhou , Bing-Lin Gu

Spinel MgAl2O4 and family oxides are emerging barrier materials useful for magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). We report large tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) ratios up to 429% at room temperature (RT) and 1,034% at 10 K in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-02 Thomas Scheike , Zhenchao Wen , Hiroaki Sukegawa , Seiji Mitani

Antiferromagnetic materials have great potential for spintronic applications at terahertz (THz) frequencies. However, in contrast to ferromagnets, experimental studies of antiferromagnets are often challenging due to a lack of…

Antiferromagnets as active elements of spintronics can be faster than their ferromagnetic counterparts and more robust to magnetic noise. Owing to the strongly exchange-coupled magnetic sublattice structure, antiferromagnetic order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Olena Gomonay , Vincent Baltz , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak