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Exploiting physical processes for fast and energy-efficient computation bears great potential in the advancement of modern hardware components. This paper explores non-linear charge tunneling in nanoparticle networks, controlled by external…

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Switching magnetization in a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ) via voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) has shown the potential to markedly reduce the switching energy. However, the requirement of an external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-18 Jiefang Deng , Gengchiau Liang , Gaurav Gupta

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

In the development of the first generation of sensors and memory chips based on spin-dependent tunneling through a thin trilayer, it has become clear that pinhole defects can have a deleterious effect on magnetoresistance. However, current…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhongsheng Zhang , David A. Rabson

Measurements of current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of a high quality Al/Al$_2$O$_3$/Al junction at temperatures ranging from 3.5 K to 300 K have been used to extract the barrier properties. Fitting results using Simmons' model led to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Edgar J. Patiño , N. G. Kelkar

Altermagnets can replace ferromagnets in tunnel junctions, yielding large tunneling magnetoresistance, ultrafast switching, and low-power functionality. While most studies explore the linear-response regime, interesting features emerge at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Sajjan Sheoran , Luke Keenan , Declan Nell , Stefano Sanvito

We propose an electrically driven spin injector into normal metals and semiconductors, which is based on a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) subjected to a microwave voltage. Efficient functioning of such an injector is provided by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 A. I. Nikitchenko , N. A. Pertsev

We have successfully fabricated Cu/AlOx-Al/Nb normal-metal/insulator/superconductor tunnel junction devices with a high value of the superconducting gap (up to $\sim 1$ mV), using electron-beam lithography and angle evaporation techniques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-18 M. R. Nevala , S. Chaudhuri , J. Halkosaari , J. T. Karvonen , I. J. Maasilta

The length-scale dependence of the dynamic entropy is studied in a molecular dynamics simulation of a binary Lennard-Jones liquid above the mode-coupling critical temperature $T_c$. A number of methods exist for estimating the entropy of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Allegrini , Jack F. Douglas , Sharon C. Glotzer

Self-consistent solutions of microscopic Eilenberger theory are presented for a two-dimensional model of a superconducting channel with a geometric constriction. Magnetic fields, external ones as well as those caused by the supercurrents,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-08-29 A. Gumann , T. Dahm , N. Schopohl

We measure the low-temperature resistance of permalloy break junctions as a function of contact size and the magnetic field angle, in applied fields large enough to saturate the magnetization. For both nanometer-scale metallic contacts and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 Kirill I. Bolotin , Ferdinand Kuemmeth , D. C. Ralph

Many phenomena in condensed matter are thought to result from competition between different ordered phases. Palladium is a paramagnetic metal close to both ferromagnetism and superconductivity, and is therefore a potentially interesting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-14 Gavin D. Scott , Juan J. Palacios , Douglas Natelson

Approximation of entropies of various types using machine learning (ML) regression methods are shown for the first time. The ML models presented in this study define the complexity of the short time series by approximating dissimilar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Andrei Velichko , Maksim Belyaev , Matthias P. Wagner , Alireza Taravat

We demonstrate the first \textit{all-metallic} mesoscopic superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) field-effect controlled Josephson transistors (SNS-FETs) and show their full characterization from the critical temperature $T_c$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Giorgio De Simoni , Federico Paolucci , Claudio Puglia , Francesco Giazotto

We present a theory describing the trapping and untrapping of quasiparticles in the Andreev bound level of a single-channel weak link between two superconductors. We calculate the rates of the transitions between even and odd occupations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-06 D. G. Olivares , L. Bretheau , Ç. Ö. Girit , H. Pothier , C. Urbina , A. Levy Yeyati

Thermal stability factor (delta) of recording layer was studied in perpendicular anisotropy CoFeB/MgO magnetic tunnel junctions (p-MTJs) with various CoFeB recording layer thicknesses and junction sizes. In all series of p-MTJs with…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-30 H. Sato , M. Yamanouchi , K. Miura , S. Ikeda , R. Koizumi , F. Matsukura , H. Ohno

Magnetic tunnel junctions with perpendicular anisotropy form the basis of the spin-transfer torque magnetic random-access memory (STT-MRAM), which is non-volatile, fast, dense, and has quasi-infinite write endurance and low power…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-17 Libor Vojáček , Fatima Ibrahim , Ali Hallal , Bernard Dieny , Mairbek Chshiev

Sub-gap conductance at a large area junction with a rough interface of a ferromagnet and a high-T$_{C}$ superconductor is superimposed by multiple peaks which is not expected from an ideal point contact Andreev reflection process. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-03-25 N. Ghosh , H. Schmidt , M. Grundmann

Superparamagnetic tunnel junctions (SMTJs) are promising sources for the randomness required by some compact and energy-efficient computing schemes. Coupling SMTJs gives rise to collective behavior that could be useful for cognitive…

Attosecond observations of coherent electron dynamics in molecules and nanostructures can be achieved by combining conventional scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) with ultrashort femtosecond laser pulses. While experimental studies in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Boyang Ma , Michael Krüger