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Beyond Moore's technologies: operation principles of a superconductor alternative
The predictions of Moore's law are considered by experts to be valid until
2020 giving rise to "post-Moore's" technologies afterwards. Energy efficiency
is one of the major challenges in high-performance computing that should be
answered. Superconductor digital technology is a promising post-Moore's
alternative for the development of supercomputers. In this paper, we consider
operation principles of an energy-efficient superconductor logic and memory
circuits with a short retrospective review of their evolution. We analyze their
shortcomings in respect to computer circuits design. Possible ways of further
research are outlined.Comment: OPEN ACCES
Ultrafast and low-energy switching in voltage-controlled elliptical pMTJ
Switching magnetization in a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ)
via voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) has shown the potential to
markedly reduce the switching energy. However, the requirement of an external
magnetic field poses a critical bottleneck for its practical applications. In
this work, we propose an elliptical-shaped pMTJ to eliminate the requirement of
providing an external field by an additional circuit. We demonstrate that a 10
nm thick in-plane magnetized bias layer (BL) separated by a metallic spacer of
3 nm from the free layer (FL) can be engineered within the MTJ stack to provide
the 50 mT bias magnetic field for switching. By conducting macrospin
simulation, we find that a fast switching in 0.38 ns with energy consumption as
low as 0.3 fJ at a voltage of 1.6 V can be achieved. Furthermore, we study the
phase diagram of switching probability, showing that a pulse duration margin of
0.15 ns is obtained and a low-voltage operation (~ 1 V) is favored. Finally,
the MTJ scalability is considered, and it is found that scaling-down may not be
appealing in terms of both the energy consumption and the switching time for
the precession based VCMA switching.Comment: There are 28 pages and 5 figure
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