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The emergence of altermagnets has driven groundbreaking advances in spintronics. Notably, d-wave altermagnets support non-relativistic spin transport, efficient charge-to-spin conversion, and T-odd spin currents. In addition, their…

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Naturally random devices that exploit ambient thermal noise have recently attracted attention as hardware primitives for accelerating probabilistic computing applications. One such approach is to use a low barrier nanomagnet as the free…

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The antiferromagnets with the time-reversal symmetry broken magnetic structures possess a finite spin splitting in the momentum space, and may contribute to a realization of a finite tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect even with magnets…

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Antiferromagnetic transition metal oxides are an established and widely studied materials system in the context of spin-based electronics, commonly used as passive elements in exchange bias-based memory devices. Currently, major interest…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-24 H. Meer , O. Gomonay , A. Wittmann , M. Kläui

Ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJ) based on hafnium zirconium oxide (Hf1-xZrxO2; HZO) are a promising candidate for future applications, such as low-power memories and neuromorphic computing. The tunneling electroresistance (TER) is…

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) based on all-two dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures with sharp and clean interfaces in atomic scale are essential for the application of next-generation spintronics. However, the lack of…

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A new spintronic theory has been developed for the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) with single-crystal barrier. The barrier will be treated as a diffraction grating with intralayer periodicity, the diffracted waves of tunneling electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Henan Fang , Mingwen Xiao , Wenbin Rui , Jun Du , Zhikuo Tao

We have fabricated a lateral double barrier magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) which consists of a single self-assembled InAs quantum dot (QD) with ferromagnetic Co leads. The MTJ shows clear hysteretic tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Hamaya , S. Masubuchi , M. Kawamura , T. Machida , M. Jung , K. Shibata , K. Hirakawa , T. Taniyama , S. Ishida , Y. Arakawa

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…

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) van der Waals (vdW) materials provide a novel platform for synthetic AFM spintronics, in which the spin-related functionalities are derived from manipulating spin configurations between the layers. Metallic vdW…

Molecular bridges covalently bonded to two ferromagnetic electrodes can transform ferromagnetic materials and produce intriguing spin transport characteristics. This paper discusses the impact of molecule induced strong coupling on spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-04 Pawan Tyagi , Edward Friebe

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…

Presently a lot of efforts are devoted to the investigation of new two-dimensional magnetic materials, which are considered as promising for the realization of the future electronics and spintronics devices. However, the utilization of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-02 Yichen Jin , Mouhui Yan , Yuriy Dedkov , Elena Voloshina

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are key enablers of spintronic technologies used in a variety of applications including information storage, microwave generation and detection, as well as unconventional computing. Here, we present…

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The large-scale fabrication of three-terminal magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with high yield is becoming increasingly crucial, especially with the growing interest in spin-orbit torque (SOT) magnetic random access memory (MRAM) as the…

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…

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Emerging non-volatile memories (NVMs) have currently attracted great interest for their potential applications in advanced low-power information storage and processing technologies. Conventional NVMs, such as magnetic random access memory…

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…

Altermagnet-based heterojunctions have demonstrated magnetoresistive effects in experiments, however, a predictive theoretical model for non-ferromagnetic structures has remained elusive. In this work, we develop a tunneling-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Kun Yan , Yizhi Hu , Wei-Hua Xiao , Xiaolong Zou , Xiaobin Chen , Wenhui Duan

We studied polycrystalline B2-type Co2FeAl (CFA) full-Heusler alloy based magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) fabricated on a Si/SiO2 amorphous substrate. Polycrystalline CFA films with a (001) orientation, a high B2 ordering, and a flat…

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