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20122026
most citedSwitching of perpendicular magnetization by spin-orbit torques in the absence of external magnetic fields

1.1k citations · 2.3k across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.ET2026

A Voltage-controlled MTJ-CMOS Neuron Emulating Tunable Izhikevich-Inspired Dynamics

Kayode Oluwaseyi Adebunmi, Jordan Athas, Allison Fleming +5

Biological neurons exhibit diverse firing dynamics that enable adaptive and stimulus-dependent signalling, yet reproducing these dynamics in hardware has remained an enduring chall…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Reconfigurable field-free spin Hall nano-oscillators enabled by crystallographic anisotropy in epitaxial Co/Pt

Jong-Guk Choi, Avinash Kumar Chaurasiya, Jaimin Kang +9

Spin Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs) are nanoscale microwave sources for wireless communication, neuromorphic computing and oscillator-based Ising machines, but conventional devices…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

A magneto-mechanical gyroscope with spintronic readout

Andrea Meo, Francesca Garesci, Pedro Bossi Nunez +10

Gyroscopes are essential elements in navigation, consumer electronics, robotics, and aerospace applications. Most micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) implementations rely on ca…

eess.SY2026

A scalable and resource-efficient pipelined p-computer for probabilistic Ising machines

Deborah Volpe, Eleonora Raimondo, Andrea Grimaldi +7

Probabilistic Ising machines (PIMs) based on probabilistic bits offer a hardware-friendly route to solve combinatorial optimization problems, but most digital implementations achie…

physics.app-ph2026

P-dit Probabilistic Ising Machine for Solving the Quadratic Assignment Problem

Christian Duffee, Chadbourne M. Burling-Smith, Jordan Athas +4

Combinatorial optimization problems represent a wide range of real-world scenarios where complicated interactions make it difficult to find the best solution. One example is the qu…

cs.IT2026

Physics-Inspired Probabilistic Computing for Extremely Large-Scale MIMO Detection in Future 6G Wireless Systems

Andrea Grimaldi, Christian Duffee, Eleonora Raimondo +8

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) architectures are a key enabler of forthcoming 6G wireless communication networks by allowing high data rates through…

cs.ET2026★ 2 cited

A Comparative Study of Digital Memristor-Based Processing-In-Memory from a Device and Reliability Perspective

Thomas Neuner, Henriette Padberg, Lior Kornblum +3

As data-intensive applications increasingly strain conventional computing systems, processing-in-memory (PIM) has emerged as a promising paradigm to alleviate the memory wall by mi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Octupole-driven spin torque switching of antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions

Jaimin Kang, Mohammad Hamdi, Shun Kong Cheung +28

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) based on ferromagnets are canonical devices in spintronics, with wide-ranging applications in data storage, computing, and sensing. They simultaneo…

physics.app-ph2025★ 1 cited

Extended-variable probabilistic computing with p-dits

Christian Duffee, Jordan Athas, Andrea Grimaldi +4

Ising machines can solve combinatorial optimization problems by representing them as energy minimization problems. A common implementation is the probabilistic Ising machine (PIM),…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Quantized Artificial Neural Networks Implemented with Spintronic Stochastic Computing

Saadi Sabyasachi, Walid Al Misba, Yixin Shao +2

An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) inference involves matrix vector multiplications that require a very large number of multiply and accumulate operations, resulting in high energy…

physics.app-ph2024★ 27 cited

Integrated probabilistic computer using voltage-controlled magnetic tunnel junctions as its entropy source

Christian Duffee, Jordan Athas, Yixin Shao +6

Probabilistic Ising machines (PIMs) provide a path to solving many computationally hard problems more efficiently than deterministic algorithms on von Neumann computers. Stochastic…

cs.AR2024

Voltage-Controlled Magnetic Tunnel Junction based ADC-less Global Shutter Processing-in-Pixel for Extreme-Edge Intelligence

Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser, Gourav Datta, Jordan Athas +5

The vast amount of data generated by camera sensors has prompted the exploration of energy-efficient processing solutions for deploying computer vision tasks on edge devices. Among…

physics.app-ph2023

A magneto-mechanical accelerometer based on magnetic tunnel junctions

Andrea Meo, Francesca Garescì, Victor Lopez-Dominguez +6

Accelerometers have widespread applications and are an essential component in many areas such as automotive, consumer electronics and industrial applications. Most commercial accel…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 11 cited

Domain periodicity in an easy-plane antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Riccardo Tomasello, Luis Sanchez-Tejerina, Victor Lopez-Dominguez +5

Antiferromagnetic spintronics is a promising emerging paradigm to develop high-performance computing and communications devices. From a theoretical point of view, it is important t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 321 cited

Strong Rashba-Edelstein Effect-Induced Spin-Orbit Torques in Monolayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide/Ferromagnet Bilayers

Qiming Shao, Guoqiang Yu, Yann-Wen Lan +7

The electronic and optoelectronic properties of two dimensional materials have been extensively explored in graphene and layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Spintronic…

physics.app-ph2018★ 24 cited

Spintronic nano-scale harvester of broadband microwave energy

Bin Fang, Mario Carpentieri, Steven Louis +15

The harvesting of ambient radio-frequency (RF) energy is an attractive and clean way to realize the idea of self-powered electronics. Here we present a design for a microwave energ…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 91 cited

Giant interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in MgO/CoFe/capping layer structures

Shouzhong Peng, Weisheng Zhao, Junfeng Qiao +8

Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) based on CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB structures is of great interest due to its application in the spin-transfer-torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM).…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 118 cited

Electric-field guiding of magnetic skyrmions

Pramey Upadhyaya, Guoqiang Yu, Pedram Khalili Amiri +1

We theoretically study equilibrium and dynamic properties of nanosized magnetic skyrmions in thin magnetic films with broken inversion symmetry, where electric field couples to mag…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 181 cited

Giant spin-torque diode sensitivity at low input power in the absence of bias magnetic field

Bin Fang, Mario Carpentieri, Xiaojie Hao +11

Microwave detectors based on the spin-transfer torque diode effect are among the key emerging spintronic devices. By utilizing the spin of electrons in addition to charge, they hav…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 1.1k cited

Switching of perpendicular magnetization by spin-orbit torques in the absence of external magnetic fields

Guoqiang Yu, Pramey Upadhyaya, Yabin Fan +10

Magnetization switching by current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) is of great interest due to its potential applications for ultralow-power memory and logic devices. In order to…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 8 cited

Electric-field induced domain-wall dynamics: depinning and chirality switching

Pramey Upadhyaya, Ritika Dusad, Silas Hoffman +4

We theoretically study the equilibrium and dynamic properties of nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) and magnetic wires, in which an electric field controls the magnetic ani…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 202 cited

Ultralow-current-density and bias-field-free spin-transfer nano-oscillator

Zhongming Zeng, Giovanni Finocchio, Baoshun Zhang +8

The spin-transfer nano-oscillator (STNO) offers the possibility of using the transfer of spin angular momentum via spin-polarized currents to generate microwave signals. However, a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 268 cited

Voltage-Induced Ferromagnetic Resonance in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

Jian Zhu, J. A. Katine, Graham E. Rowlands +8

We demonstrate excitation of ferromagnetic resonance in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) by the combined action of voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 6 cited

Magnetic bit stability: Competition between domain-wall and monodomain switching

Silas Hoffman, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Pedram Khalili Amiri +1

We numerically study the thermal stability properties of computer memory storage realized by a magnetic ellipse. In the case of practical magnetic random-access memory devices, the…