Pub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.1038/s44306-023-00005-0
Mykhaylo Balinskyy, Alexander Khitun
In this work, we consider a type of magnetic memory where information is encoded into the mutual arrangement of magnets. The device is an active ring circuit comprising magnetic and electric parts connected in series. The electric part includes a broadband amplifier, phase shifters, and attenuators. The magnetic part is a mesh of magnonic waveguides with magnets placed on the waveguide junctions. There are amplitude and phase conditions for auto-oscillations to occur in the active ring circuit. The frequency(s) of the auto-oscillation and spin wave propagation path(s) in the magnetic part depends on the mutual arrangement of magnets in the mesh. The propagation path is detected with a set of power sensors. The correlation between circuit parameters and spin wave path is the basis of memory operation. The combination of input/output switches connecting electric and magnetic parts and electric phase shifters constitute the memory address. The output of the power sensors is the memory state. We present experimental data on the proof-of-the-concept experiments on the prototype with three magnets placed on top of a single-crystal yttrium iron garnet Y3Fe2(FeO4)3 (YIG) film. There are three selected places for the magnets to be placed. There is a variety of spin wave propagation paths for each configuration of magnets. The results demonstrate a robust operation with an On/Off ratio for path detection exceeding 35 dB at room temperature. The number of possible magnet arrangements scales factorially with the size of the magnetic part. The number of possible paths per one configuration scales factorial as well. It makes it possible to drastically increase the data storage density compared to conventional memory devices. Magnonic combinatorial memory with an array of 100 × 100 magnets can store all information generated by humankind. Physical limits and constraints are also discussed.
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Making magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) smaller while meeting performance requirements is critical for future electronics with spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM). However, it is challenging in the conventional MTJs using a thin CoFeB free layer capped with an MgO layer because of increasing difficulties in satisfying the required data retention and switching speed at smaller scales. Here we report single-nanometer MTJs using a free layer consisting of CoFeB/MgO multilayers, where the number of CoFeB/MgO interfaces and/or the CoFeB thicknesses are engineered to tailor device performance to applications requiring high-data retention or high-speed capability. We fabricate ultra-small MTJs down to 2.0 nm and show high data retention (over 10 years) and high-speed switching at 10 ns or below in sub-5-nm MTJs. The stack design proposed here proves that ultra-small CoFeB/MgO MTJs hold the potential for high-performance and high-density STT-MRAM.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1038/s44306-023-00002-3
Jeffrey Rable, Jyotirmay Dwivedi, Nitin Samarth
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond offer a sensitive method of measuring the spatially localized dynamics of magnetization and associated spin textures in ferromagnetic materials. We use NV centers in a deterministically positioned nanodiamond to demonstrate off-resonant detection of microwave field-driven GHz-scale oscillations of a single domain wall (DW). The technique exploits the enhanced relaxation of NV center spins due to the broadband stray field noise generated by an oscillating DW pinned at an engineered defect in a lithographically patterned ferromagnetic nanowire. Discrepancies between the observed DW oscillation frequency and predictions from micromagnetic simulations suggest extreme sensitivity of DW dynamics to patterning imperfections such as edge roughness. These experiments and simulations identify potential pathways toward quantum spintronic devices that exploit current-driven DWs as nanoscale microwave generators for qubit control, greatly increasing the driving field at an NV center and thus drastically reducing the π pulse time.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1038/s44306-023-00001-4
Soju Furuta, Wataru Koshibae, Fumitaka Kagawa
Metals hosting gradually varying spatial magnetic textures are attracting attention as a new class of inductors. Under the application of an alternating current, the spin-transfer-torque effect induces oscillating dynamics of the magnetic texture, which subsequently yields the spin-motive force as a back action, resulting in an inductive voltage response. In general, a second-order tensor representing a material’s response can have an off-diagonal component. However, it is unclear what symmetries the emergent inductance tensor has and also which magnetic textures can exhibit a transverse inductance response. Here, we reveal both analytically and numerically that the emergent inductance tensor should be a symmetric tensor in the so-called adiabatic limit. By considering this symmetric tensor in terms of symmetry operations that a magnetic texture has, we further characterize the magnetic textures in which the transverse inductance response can appear. This finding provides a basis for exploring the transverse response of emergent inductors, which has yet to be discovered.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1038/s44306-023-00004-1
Soju Furuta, Samuel Harrison Moody, Kyohei Kado, Wataru Koshibae, Fumitaka Kagawa
Spatially varying magnetic textures can exhibit electric-current-induced dynamics as a result of the spin-transfer torque effect. When such a magnetic system is electrically driven, an electric field is generated, which is called the emergent electric field. In particular, when magnetic-texture dynamics are induced under the application of an AC electric current, the emergent electric field also appears in an AC manner, notably, with an out-of-phase time profile, thus exhibiting inductor behavior, often called an emergent inductor. Here we show that the emergent inductance exhibited by magnetic textures in the pinned regime can be explained in terms of the current-induced energy stored in the magnetic system. We numerically find that the inductance values defined from the emergent electric field and the current-induced magnetization-distortion energy, respectively, are in quantitative agreement in the so-called adiabatic limit. Our findings indicate that emergent inductors retain the basic concept of conventional inductors; that is, the energy is stored under the application of electric current.
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