Writing magnetic memory with ultrashort light pulses

AV Kimel, M Li - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Laser pulses are the shortest stimulus known to control the magnetization of materials and to
switch magnetic devices on the picosecond to femtosecond timescales. Femtosecond laser …

Spin-transfer torque switched magnetic tunnel junction for memory technologies

JZ Sun - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
A spin-transfer torque switched magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is a memory element in
modern magnetic random access memory (MRAM), a CMOS-integrated technology that is …

Single-shot dynamics of spin–orbit torque and spin transfer torque switching in three-terminal magnetic tunnel junctions

E Grimaldi, V Krizakova, G Sala, F Yasin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Current-induced spin-transfer torques (STT) and spin–orbit torques (SOT) enable the
electrical switching of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) in non-volatile magnetic random …

Basic principles of STT-MRAM cell operation in memory arrays

AV Khvalkovskiy, D Apalkov, S Watts… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
For reliable operation, individual cells of an STT-MRAM memory array must meet specific
requirements on their performance. In this work we review some of these requirements and …

Magnetoresistive random access memory

D Apalkov, B Dieny, JM Slaughter - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a review of the developments in MRAM technology over the past 20 years is
presented. The various MRAM generations are described with a particular focus on spin …

Properties of magnetic tunnel junctions with a MgO/CoFeB/Ta/CoFeB/MgO recording structure down to junction diameter of 11 nm

H Sato, ECI Enobio, M Yamanouchi, S Ikeda… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate properties of perpendicular anisotropy magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with
a recording structure of MgO/CoFeB/Ta/CoFeB/MgO down to junction diameter (D) of 11 nm …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-low switching energy and scaling in electric-field-controlled nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions with high resistance-area product

C Grezes, F Ebrahimi, JG Alzate, X Cai… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We report electric-field-induced switching with write energies down to 6 fJ/bit for switching
times of 0.5 ns, in nanoscale perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with high …

Central role of domain wall depinning for perpendicular magnetization switching driven by spin torque from the spin Hall effect

OJ Lee, LQ Liu, CF Pai, Y Li, HW Tseng, PG Gowtham… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We study deterministic magnetic reversal of a perpendicularly magnetized Co layer in a
Co/MgO/Ta nanosquare driven by spin Hall torque from an in-plane current flowing in an …

Perpendicular-anisotropy CoFeB-MgO magnetic tunnel junctions with a MgO/CoFeB/Ta/CoFeB/MgO recording structure

H Sato, M Yamanouchi, S Ikeda, S Fukami… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We investigated perpendicular CoFeB-MgO magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with a
recording structure consisting of two CoFeB-MgO interfaces, MgO/CoFeB (1.6 nm)/Ta (0.4 …

Spin dice: A scalable truly random number generator based on spintronics

A Fukushima, T Seki, K Yakushiji, H Kubota… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Generation of practical random numbers (RNs) by a spintronics-based, scalable truly RN
generator called" spin dice" was demonstrated. The generator utilizes the stochastic nature …