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We have fabricated nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with an additional fixed magnetic layer added above the magnetic free layer of a standard MTJ structure. This acts as a second source of spin-polarized electrons that, depending…

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

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) interconnected via a continuous ferromagnetic free layer were fabricated for Spin Torque Majority Gate (STMG) logic. The MTJs are biased independently and show magnetoelectric response under spin transfer…

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), composed of two ferromagnetic electrodes separated by a thin insulating barrier layer, are currently used in spintronic devices, such as magnetic sensors and magnetic random access memories. Recently,…

Significant scientific and technological progress in the field of spintronics is based on trilayer magnetic tunnel junction devices which principally rely on the physics of single barrier tunneling. While technologically relevant devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Abhishek Sharma , Ashwin. A. Tulapurkar , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

The quest for highly efficient cognitive computing has led to extensive research interest for the field of neuromorphic computing. Neuromorphic computing aims to mimic the behavior of biological neurons and synapses using solid-state…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Humberto Inzunza Velarde , Jheel Nagaria , Zihan Yin , Ajey Jacob , Akhilesh Jaiswal

There are pressing problems with traditional computing, especially for accomplishing data-intensive and real-time tasks, that motivate the development of in-memory computing devices to both store information and perform computation.…

Multiple neuromorphic applications require the tuning of two or more devices to a common signal. Various types of neuromorphic computation can be realized using spintronic oscillators, where the DC current induces magnetization precession,…

There exists a significant challenge in developing efficient magnetic tunnel junctions with low write currents for non-volatile memory devices. With the aim of analysing potential materials for efficient current-operated magnetic junctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Matthew O. A. Ellis , Maria Stamenova , Stefano Sanvito

We study whether a direct measurement of the absolute temperature of a Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) can be performed using the high frequency electrical noise that it delivers under a finite voltage bias. Our method includes quasi-static…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-03 Adrien Le Goff , Vladimir Nikitin , Thibaut Devolder

Brain-inspired computing architectures attempt to mimic the computations performed in the neurons and the synapses in the human brain in order to achieve its efficiency in learning and cognitive tasks. In this work, we demonstrate the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Abhronil Sengupta , Priyadarshini Panda , Parami Wijesinghe , Yusung Kim , Kaushik Roy

Control of magnetism without using magnetic fields enables large-scale integration of spintronic devices for memory, computation and communication in the beyond-CMOS era. Mechanisms including spin torque transfer, spin Hall effect, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 Jun-Yang Chen , Li He , Jian-Ping Wang , Mo Li

The tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) in the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) with embedded nanoparticles (NPs) was calculated in range of the quantum-ballistic model. The simulation was performed for electron tunneling through the insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-25 Arthur Useinov , Lin-Xiu Ye , Niazbeck Useinov , Te-Ho Wu , Chih-Huang Lai

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…

Electric-field control of spin states offers a promising route to ultra-low-power, ultra-fast magnetization switching in spintronic devices such as magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). Recent progress in modulating spin-orbit interactions at…

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…

We present the first experimental demonstration of a neuromorphic network with magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) synapses, which performs image recognition via vector-matrix multiplication. We also simulate a large MTJ network performing MNIST…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Peng Zhou , Alexander J. Edwards , Fred B. Mancoff , Dimitri Houssameddine , Sanjeev Aggarwal , Joseph S. Friedman

Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) spin torque oscillators (STO) have shown the potential to be used in a wide range of microwave and sensing applications. To evaluate potential uses of MTJ STO technology in various applications, an analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 Tingsu Chen , Anders Eklund , Ezio Iacocca , Saul Rodriguez , Gunnar Malm , Johan Åkerman , Ana Rusu

Spin-bottlenecks are created in magnetic-tunnel-junction devices by spatial inhomogeneity in the relative resistances for up and down spins. We propose a simple electrical circuit model for these devices which incorporates spin-bottleneck…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald

The atomistic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation is challenged when modeling spintronic devices where Joule heating is significant, due to its core assumption of a constant magnetization magnitude. Based on a statistical framework that treats…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Pascal Thibaudeau , Mouad Fattouhi , Liliana D. Buda-Prejbeanu