Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at transition metal/oxide interfaces and applications

B Dieny, M Chshiev - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Spin electronics is a rapidly expanding field stimulated by a strong synergy between
breakthrough basic research discoveries and industrial applications in the fields of magnetic …

Room-temperature intrinsic ferromagnetism in epitaxial CrTe2 ultrathin films

X Zhang, Q Lu, W Liu, W Niu, J Sun, J Cook… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
While the discovery of two-dimensional (2D) magnets opens the door for fundamental
physics and next-generation spintronics, it is technically challenging to achieve the room …

Modulation of heavy metal/ferromagnetic metal interface for high‐performance spintronic devices

S Peng, D Zhu, J Zhou, B Zhang, A Cao… - Advanced Electronic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Spintronic devices such as magnetic tunnel junctions and skyrmions have attracted
considerable attention due to features such as nonvolatility, high scalability, low power, and …

Room-temperature stabilization of antiferromagnetic skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets

W Legrand, D Maccariello, F Ajejas, S Collin… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Room-temperature skyrmions in ferromagnetic films and multilayers show promise for
encoding information bits in new computing technologies. Despite recent progress …

Basic principles of STT-MRAM cell operation in memory arrays

AV Khvalkovskiy, D Apalkov, S Watts… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
For reliable operation, individual cells of an STT-MRAM memory array must meet specific
requirements on their performance. In this work we review some of these requirements and …

Electric-field-assisted switching in magnetic tunnel junctions

WG Wang, M Li, S Hageman, CL Chien - Nature materials, 2012 - nature.com
The advent of spin transfer torque effect accommodates site-specific switching of magnetic
nanostructures by current alone without magnetic field. However, the critical current density …

Spin-orbit torques in heavy-metal–ferromagnet bilayers with varying strengths of interfacial spin-orbit coupling

L Zhu, DC Ralph, RA Buhrman - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
Despite intense efforts it has remained unresolved whether and how interfacial spin-orbit
coupling (ISOC) affects spin transport across heavy-metal (HM)–ferromagnet (FM) …

Roadmap for emerging materials for spintronic device applications

A Hirohata, H Sukegawa, H Yanagihara… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Technical Committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society has selected seven research topics
to develop their roadmaps, where major developments should be listed alongside expected …

Perpendicular-anisotropy CoFeB-MgO magnetic tunnel junctions with a MgO/CoFeB/Ta/CoFeB/MgO recording structure

H Sato, M Yamanouchi, S Ikeda, S Fukami… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We investigated perpendicular CoFeB-MgO magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with a
recording structure consisting of two CoFeB-MgO interfaces, MgO/CoFeB (1.6 nm)/Ta (0.4 …

Materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for magnetic random access memory

R Sbiaa, H Meng… - physica status solidi …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) are being investigated for magnetic
random access memory (MRAM) and other spintronics applications. This article is an …