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Single femtosecond laser pulse-driven ferromagnetic switching
Chen Xiao, Boyu Zhang, Xiangyu Zheng +18
Light pulses offer a faster, more energy-efficient, and direct route to magnetic bit writing, pointing toward a hybrid memory and computing paradigm based on photon transmission an…
Giant Orbital Torque-driven Picosecond Switching in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Yuxuan Yao, Chen Xiao, Xiaobai Ning +18
Orbital Hall effect was recently discovered as a novel pathway for driving magnetic moment. However, the integration of orbital Hall effect in magnetic memories suffers from low or…
Anatomy of Thermally Interplayed Spin-Orbit Torque Driven Antiferromagnetic Switching
Wenlong Cai, Zanhong Chen, Yuzhang Shi +8
Current-induced antiferromagnetic (AFM) switching remains critical in spintronics, yet the interplay between thermal effects and spin torques still lacks clear clarification. Here…
NAND-like SOT-MRAM-based Approximate Storage for Error-Tolerant Applications
Min Wang, Zhengyi Hou, Chenyi Wang +13
We demonstrate approximate storage based on NAND-like spin-orbit torque (SOT) MRAM, through "device-modeling-architecture" explorations. We experimentally achieve down to 1E-5 leve…
Observation of Magnetic Droplets in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Kewen Shi, Wenlong Cai, Sheng Jiang +10
Magnetic droplets, a class of highly non-linear magnetodynamical solitons, can be nucleated and stabilized in nanocontact spin-torque nano-oscillators where they greatly increase t…
Picosecond Switching of Optomagnetic Tunnel Junctions
Luding Wang, Houyi Cheng, Pingzhi Li +7
Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions are one of the building blocks for spintronic memories, which allow fast nonvolatile data access, offering substantial potentials to revolut…
Spin-torque memristors based on perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions with a hybrid chiral texture
Xueying Zhang, Wenlong Cai, Mengxing Wang +6
Spin-torque memristors were proposed in 2009, which could provide fast, low-power and infinite memristive behavior for large-density non-volatile memory and neuromorphic computing.…
Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction by the interplay of spin orbit and spin transfer torques
Mengxing Wang, Wenlong Cai, Daoqian Zhu +11
Spin-orbit torque and spin-transfer torque are leading the pathway to the future of spintronic memories. However, both of the mechanisms are suffering from intrinsic limitations. I…
Skyrmions in magnetic tunnel junctions
Xueying Zhang, Wenlong Cai, Xichao Zhang +10
In this work, we demonstrate that skyrmions can be nucleated in the free layer of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI) by a spin-polarized…
Tunneling magnetoresistance enhancement by symmetrization in spin-orbit torque magnetic tunnel junction
Jiaqi Zhou, Weisheng Zhao, Kaihua Cao +3
Heavy metals with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) have been employed to generate spin current to control the magnetization dynamics by spin-orbit torque (SOT). Magnetic tunnel jun…
Current-induced magnetization switching in atom-thick tungsten engineered perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions with large tunnel magnetoresistance
Mengxing Wang, Wenlong Cai, Kaihua Cao +11
Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions based on MgO/CoFeB structures are of particular interest for magnetic random-access memories because of their excellent thermal stability, s…
Heterogeneous Memristive Devices Enabled by Magnetic Tunnel Junction Nanopillars Surrounded by Resistive Silicon Switches
Yu Zhang, Xiaoyang Lin, Jean-Paul Adam +14
Emerging non-volatile memories (NVMs) have currently attracted great interest for their potential applications in advanced low-power information storage and processing technologies…
Influence of heavy metal materials on magnetic properties of Pt/Co/heavy metal tri-layered structures
Boyu Zhang, Anni Cao, Junfeng Qiao +11
Pt/Co/heavy metal (HM) tri-layered structures with interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) are currently under intensive research for several emerging spintronic effect…