Bipolar Electric-Field Switching of Perpendicular Magnetic Tunnel Junctions through Voltage-Controlled Exchange Coupling.

Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Spintronics Synthetic antiferromagnetic free layer Voltage-Controlled Exchange Coupling (VCEC)

Journal

Nano letters
ISSN: 1530-6992
Titre abrégé: Nano Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101088070

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
26 Jan 2022
Historique:
pubmed: 5 1 2022
medline: 5 1 2022
entrez: 4 1 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (p-MTJs) switched utilizing bipolar electric fields have extensive applications in energy-efficient memory and logic devices. Voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy linearly lowers the energy barrier of the ferromagnetic layer via the electric field effect and efficiently switches p-MTJs only with a unipolar behavior. Here, we demonstrate a bipolar electric field effect switching of 100 nm p-MTJs with a synthetic antiferromagnetic free layer through voltage-controlled exchange coupling (VCEC). The switching current density, ∼1.1 × 10

Identifiants

pubmed: 34982564
doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03395
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

622-629

Auteurs

Delin Zhang (D)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.

Mukund Bapna (M)

Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.

Wei Jiang (W)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.

Duarte Sousa (D)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.

Yu-Ching Liao (YC)

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.

Zhengyang Zhao (Z)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.

Yang Lv (Y)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.

Protyush Sahu (P)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.

Deyuan Lyu (D)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.

Azad Naeemi (A)

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.

Tony Low (T)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.

Sara A Majetich (SA)

Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.

Jian-Ping Wang (JP)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.

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