Spin-Torque Oscillator Based on Magnetic Tunnel Junction with a Perpendicularly Magnetized Free Layer and In-Plane Magnetized Polarizer

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 103003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitoshi Kubota ◽  
Kay Yakushiji ◽  
Akio Fukushima ◽  
Shingo Tamaru ◽  
Makoto Konoto ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Nafeesa Rahman ◽  
Rachid Sbiaa

The transfer of spin angular momentum from a spin polarized current provides an efficient way of reversing the magnetization direction of the free layer of the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), and while faster reversal will reduce the switching energy, this in turn will lead to low power consumption. In this work, we propose a design where a spin torque oscillator (STO) is integrated with a conventional magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) which will assist in the ultrafast reversal of the magnetization of the free layer of the MTJ. The structure formed (MTJ stacked with STO), will have the free layer of the MTJ sandwiched between two spin polarizer layers, one with a fixed magnetization direction perpendicular to film plane (main static polarizer) and the other with an oscillatory magnetization (dynamic polarizer). The static polarizer is the fixed layer of the MTJ itself and the dynamic polarizer is the free layer of the STO.


Author(s):  
Y. Suzuki

This chapter discusses the effects of a spin current injected into a uniformly magnetized ferromagnetic cell. The junction consists of two ferromagnetic layers separated by a nonmagnetic metal interlayer or insulating barrier layer. With a nonmagnetic metal interlayer, the junction is called a giant magnetoresistive nanopillar, and with an insulating barrier layer a magnetic-tunnel junction. When charge current is passed through this device, the electrons are first spin polarized by the fixed layer and spin-polarized current is then injected into the free layer through the nonmagnetic interlayer. This spin current interacts with the spins in the host material by an exchange interaction and exerts a torque. If the exerted torque is large enough, magnetization in the free layer is reversed or continuous precession is excited.


2018 ◽  
Vol 112 (26) ◽  
pp. 262408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumito Tsunegi ◽  
Kotaro Mizunuma ◽  
Kazuya Suzuki ◽  
Hiroshi Imamura ◽  
Shingo Tamaru ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aijaz Lone ◽  
Selma Amara ◽  
Hossein Fariborzi

The present work discusses the proposal of a spintronic neuromorphic system with spin orbit torque driven domain wall motion-based neuron and synapse. We propose a voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy domain wall motion based magnetic tunnel junction neuron. We investigate how the electric field at the gate (pinning site), generated by the voltage signals from pre-neurons, modulates the domain wall motion, which reflects in the non-linear switching behaviour of neuron magnetization. For the implementation of synaptic weights, we propose 3-terminal MTJ with stochastic domain wall motion in the free layer. We incorporate intrinsic pinning effects by creating triangular notches on the sides of the free layer. The pinning of domain wall and intrinsic thermal noise of device lead to the stochastic behaviour of domain wall motion. The control of this stochasticity by the spin orbit torque is shown to realize the potentiation and depression of the synaptic weight. The micromagnetics and spin transport studies in synapse and neuron are carried out by developing a coupled micromagnetic Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function (<i>MuMag-NEGF</i>) model. The minimization of the writing current pulse width by leveraging the thermal noise and demagnetization energy is also presented. Finally, we discuss the implementation of digit recognition by the proposed system using a spike time dependent algorithm.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Demin ◽  
K. A. Zvezdin ◽  
A. F. Popkov

Spin caloritronics opens up a wide range of potential applications, one of which can be the thermoelectric rectification of a microwave signal by spin-diode structures. The bolometric properties of a spin-torque diode based on a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) in the presence of a thermal gradient through a tunnel junction are discussed. Theoretical estimates of the static and dynamic components of the microwave sensitivity of the spin-torque diode, related to thermoelectric tunnel magneto-Seebeck effect and the thermal transfer of spin angular momentum in the MTJ under nonuniform heating, are presented. Despite the fact that the thermal contribution to the microwave sensitivity of the spin-torque diode is found to be relatively small in relation to the rectification effect related to the modulation of the MTJ resistance by a microwave spin-polarized current, nevertheless, the considered bolometric effect can be successfully utilized in some real-world microwave applications.


Author(s):  
Marco Mansueto ◽  
Antoine Chavent ◽  
Ricardo Sousa ◽  
Liliana D. Buda-Prejbeanu ◽  
Ioan L. Prejbeanu ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (17) ◽  
pp. 17B902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal A. Shah ◽  
Vijay K. Sankar ◽  
Peng Li ◽  
Gyorgy Csaba ◽  
Eugene Chen ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 111 (7) ◽  
pp. 07C906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiwamu Kudo ◽  
Tazumi Nagasawa ◽  
Hirofumi Suto ◽  
Tao Yang ◽  
Koichi Mizushima ◽  
...  

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