84 research outputs found
Scalability of spin FPGA: A Reconfigurable Architecture based on spin MOSFET
Scalability of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) using spin MOSFET (spin
FPGA) with magnetocurrent (MC) ratio in the range of 100% to 1000% is discussed
for the first time. Area and speed of million-gate spin FPGA are numerically
benchmarked with CMOS FPGA for 22nm, 32nm and 45nm technologies including 20%
transistor size variation. We show that area is reduced and speed is increased
in spin FPGA owing to the nonvolatile memory function of spin MOSFET.Comment: 3 pages, 7 figure
Magnetoresistance and spin-transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions
We comment on both recent progress and lingering puzzles related to research
on magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). MTJs are already being used in
applications such as magnetic-field sensors in the read heads of disk drives,
and they may also be the first device geometry in which spin-torque effects are
applied to manipulate magnetic dynamics, in order to make nonvolatile magnetic
random access memory. However, there remain many unanswered questions about
such basic properties as the magnetoresistance of MTJs, how their properties
change as a function of tunnel-barrier thickness and applied bias, and what are
the magnitude and direction of the spin-transfer-torque vector induced by a
tunnel current.Comment: 37 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to a collection of "Current
Perspectives" articles on spin transfer torque now available in the Journal
of Magnetism and Magnetic Material
Spin Transfer from a Ferromagnet into a Semiconductor through an Oxide barrier
We present results on the magnetoresistance of the system Ni/Al203/n-doped
Si/Al2O3/Ni in fabricated nanostructures. The results at temperature of 14K
reveal a 75% magnetoresistance that decreases in value up to approximately 30K
where the effect disappears. We observe minimum resistance in the antiparallel
configurations of the source and drain of Ni. As a possibility, it seems to
indicate the existence of a magnetic state at the Si/oxide interface. The
average spin diffusion length obtained is of 650 nm approximately. Results are
compared to the window of resistances that seems to exist between the tunnel
barrier resistance and two threshold resistances but the spin transfer seems to
work in the range and outside the two thresholds
Crossover from Kondo assisted suppression to co-tunneling enhancement of tunneling magnetoresistance via ferromagnetic nanodots in MgO tunnel barriers
Recently, it has been shown that magnetic tunnel junctions with thin MgO
tunnel barriers exhibit extraordinarily high tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR)
values at room temperature1, 2. However, the physics of spin dependent
tunneling through MgO barriers is only beginning to be unravelled. Using planar
magnetic tunnel junctions in which ultra-thin layers of magnetic metals are
deposited in the middle of a MgO tunnel barrier here we demonstrate that the
TMR is strongly modified when these layers are discontinuous and composed of
small pancake shaped nanodots. At low temperatures, in the Coulomb blockade
regime, for layers less than ~1 nm thick, the conductance of the junction is
increased at low bias consistent with Kondo assisted tunneling. In the same
regime we observe a suppression of the TMR. For slightly thicker layers, and
correspondingly larger nanodots, the TMR is enhanced at low bias, consistent
with co-tunneling.Comment: Nano Letters (in press
Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of full-Heusler films in Pt/Co2FeAl/MgO trilayers
We report on perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) in a Pt/Co2FeAl/MgO
sandwiched structure with a thick Co2FeAl layer of 2-2.5 nm. The PMA is
thermally stable that the anisotropy energy density Ku is 1.3{\times}106
erg/cm3 for the structure with 2 nm Co2FeAl after annealing at 350 oC. The
thicknesses of Co2FeAl and MgO layers greatly affect the PMA. Our results
provide an effective way to realize relative thick perpendicularly magnetized
Heusler alloy films.Comment: 15 pages,6 figure
Proposal and analysis of a ferromagnetic triple-barrier resonant-tunneling spin filter
A novel spin filter consisting of a triple-barrier resonant tunneling system in the form F/I/N/I/F/I/F is proposed, where F, I, and N represent a ferromagnetic material, an insulator, and a nonmagnetic material, respectively. The spin-dependent tunneling current in the triple-barrier resonant tunneling system is calculated theoretically on the basis of a Tsu-Esaki formula to investigate the output tunnel current polarization. Detailed calculations using the GaMnAs/AlAs/GaAs material system show that the two clear split peaks originating from up- and down-spin holes appear in the current-voltage (I-V) curve due to spin splitting of the energy levels formed in the ferromagnetic quantum well. The polarization can reach more than 98% at the peak positions in the I-V curve
Four-State Magnetoresistance in Epitaxial CoFe-Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
A four-state magnetic random access memory (MRAM) was developed using an epitaxial Co50Fe50-MgO-Co50Fe 50 magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) with a tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) ratio of 145% at room temperature (RT). Four remanent magnetization states in the single-crystalline Co50Fe50 electrode, due to the cubic anisotropy with easy axes of the lang110rang directions, result in four possible angular-dependent TMRs, each separated by more than 20% at RT. Analysis of the asteroid curve for Co50Fe50 indicated that the magnetic field along 22.5deg from the lang110rang directions made it possible to change the magnetization direction of the selected cell without disturbing those of the half-selected cells
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