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Spin orbit torque (SOT) provides an efficient way of generating spin current that promises to significantly reduce the current required for switching nanomagnets. However, an in-plane current generated SOT cannot deterministically switch a…

High spin-orbit torques (SOTs) generated by topological materials and heavy metals interfaced with a ferromagnetic layer show promise for next generation magnetic memory and logic devices. SOTs generated from the in-plane spin polarization…

Many key electronic technologies (e.g., large-scale computing, machine learning, and superconducting electronics) require new memories that are fast, reliable, energy-efficient, and of low-impedance at the same time, which has remained a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Lijun Zhu , Lujun Zhu , Shengjie Shi , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Analog electronic non-volatile memories mimicking synaptic operations are being explored for the implementation of neuromorphic computing systems. Compound synapses consisting of ensembles of stochastic binary elements are alternatives to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Vaibhav Ostwal , Ramtin Zand , Ronald DeMara , Joerg Appenzeller

Spin-orbit torque is a promising mechanism for writing magnetic memories, while field-effect transistors are the gold-standard device for logic operation. The spin-orbit torque field effect transistor (SOTFET) is a proposed device that…

In this paper we discuss the potential of emerging spintorque devices for computing applications. Recent proposals for spinbased computing schemes may be differentiated as all-spin vs. hybrid, programmable vs. fixed, and, Boolean vs.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-08-19 Kaushik Roy , Mrigank Sharad , Deliang Fan , Karthik Yogendra

A device based on current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) that functions as an electronic neuron is proposed in this work. The SOT device implements an artificial neuron's thresholding (transfer) function. In the first step of a two-step…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Abhronil Sengupta , Sri Harsha Choday , Yusung Kim , Kaushik Roy

As CMOS nears the end of the projected scaling roadmap, significant effort has been devoted to the search for new materials and devices that can realize memory and logic. Spintronics, is one of the promising directions for the Post-CMOS…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Zoha Pajouhi , Swagath Venkataramani , Karthik Yogendra , Anand Raghunathan , Kaushik Roy

MXenes have attracted considerable attention in recent years owing to their two-dimensional (2D) layered structures with various functionalities similar to those of graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides. To open a new application…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Prabhat Kumar , Yoshio Miura , Yoshinori Kotani , Akiho Sumiyoshiya , Tetsuya Nakamura , Gaurav K. Shukla , Shinji Isogami

Antiferromagnets are outstanding candidates for the next generation of spintronic applications, with great potential for downscaling and decreasing power consumption. Recently, the manipulation of bulk properties of antiferromagnets has…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 X. H. Liu , K. W. Edmonds , Z. P. Zhou , K. Y. Wang

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) based magnetic random access memory (MRAM) is envisioned as an emerging non-volatile memory due to its ultra-high speed and low power consumption. The field-free switching schema in SOT devices is of great interest…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-03 Min Wang , Zhaohao Wang , Chao Wang , Weisheng Zhao

The technique of conventional ferromagnet/heavy-metal spin-orbit torque (SOT) offers significant potential for enhancing the efficiency of magnetic memories. However, it faces fundamental physical limitations, including hunting effects from…

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) can be used to efficiently manipulate the magnetic state of magnetic materials, which is an essential element for memory and logic applications. Due to symmetry constraints, only in-plane spins can be injected into…

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

We propose magnetic threshold-logic (MTL) design based on non-volatile spin-torque switches. A threshold logic gate (TLG) performs summation of multiple inputs multiplied by a fixed set of weights and compares the sum with a threshold. MTL…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-08-21 Mrigank Sharad , Deliang Fan , Kaushik Roy

We report the use of spin-orbit torque (SOT) magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) to implement a probabilistic binary neural network (PBNN) for resource-saving applications. The in-plane magnetized SOT (i-SOT) MRAM not only enables…

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in spin-orbit torques (SOTs) for manipulating the magnetization in nonvolatile magnetic memory devices. SOTs rely on the spin-orbit coupling of a nonmagnetic material coupled to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Jan Hidding , Marcos H. D. Guimarães

As spin-orbit-torque magnetic random-access memory (SOT-MRAM) is gathering great interest as the next-generation low-power and high-speed on-chip cache memory applications, it is critical to analyze the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ)…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Xiang Li , Shy-Jay Lin , Mahendra DC , Yu-Ching Liao , Chengyang Yao , Azad Naeemi , Wilman Tsai , Shan X. Wang

The use of electric fields applied across magnetic heterojunctions that lack spatial inversion symmetry has been previously proposed as a non-magnetic mean of controlling localized magnetic moments through spin-orbit torques (SOT). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 María Camarasa-Gómez , Daniel Hernangómez-Pérez , Ferdinand Evers

The spin-orbit torques (SOTs) generated from topological insulators (TIs) have gained increasing attention in recent years. These TIs, which are typically formed by epitaxially grown chalcogenides, possess extremely high SOT efficiencies…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-18 Tian-Yue Chen , Cheng-Wei Peng , Tsung-Yu Tsai , Wei-Bang Liao , Chun-Te Wu , Hung-Wei Yen , Chi-Feng Pai