Scaling magnetic tunnel junction down to single-digit nanometers—Challenges and prospects

B Jinnai, K Watanabe, S Fukami, H Ohno - Applied physics letters, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), a spintronics device, has been intensively developed in the
past couple of decades because of its high potential in terms of non-volatility, fast operation …

Critical role of post-annealing in Ta/Co60Fe20B20/Ta thin film heterostructures: Structural, static, and dynamic properties

NK Gupta, S Husain, V Barwal, S Hait, L Pandey… - Journal of Magnetism …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Co 60 Fe 20 B 20 (CoFeB) alloy has been recognized as a potential material
system in spintronic devices. The post-annealing treatment of the CoFeB based …

[HTML][HTML] Sub-nanosecond spin-torque switching of perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction nanopillars at cryogenic temperatures

L Rehm, G Wolf, B Kardasz, M Pinarbasi… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Spin-transfer magnetic random access memory devices are of significant interest for
cryogenic computing systems where a persistent, fast, low-energy consuming, and …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives on spintronics technology development: Giant magnetoresistance to spin transfer torque magnetic random access memory

M Pinarbasi, AD Kent - APL Materials, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The discovery of the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect in 1988 started a new field called
spintronics and was recognized with the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded to …

Metrology and metrics for spin-transfer-torque switched magnetic tunnel junctions in memory applications

JZ Sun, C Safranski - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
A spin-transfer torque (STT) switched magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) enables modern
magnetic random access memory (MRAM). Optimization of perpendicularly magnetized MTJ …

Ultrathin perpendicular free layers for lowering the switching current in STT-MRAM

TS Santos, G Mihajlović, N Smith, JL Li… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The critical current density J c 0 required for switching the magnetization of the free layer
(FL) in a spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cell is proportional …

Key points in the determination of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction from asymmetric bubble domain expansion

A Magni, G Carlotti, A Casiraghi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Different models have been used to evaluate the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya
interaction (DMI) from the asymmetric bubble expansion method using magneto-optics …

High temperature stability in few atomic layer MoS 2 based thin film heterostructures: structural, static and dynamic magnetization properties

NK Gupta, A Kumar, L Pandey, S Hait, V Barwal… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have shown commendable properties for
spintronic applications. From the device perspective, the structural quality of the TMD as well …

Scaling of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction with magnetization in Pt/Co (Fe) B/Ir multilayers

K Alshammari, E Haltz, M Alyami, M Ali, PS Keatley… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Magnetic multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy and an interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya
interaction (DMI) contain chiral domain walls and skyrmions that are promising for …

Modeling methodology for thermal stability factor in spin transfer torque magneto-resistive random access memories

A Talapatra, M Weisheit, J Müller… - … on Electron Devices, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents systematic pathways to model the thermal stability factor for magneto-
resistive random access memories using atomistic simulations. The model involves …