Voltage-controlled interlayer coupling in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic tunnel junctions
dc.contributor.author | Newhouse-Illige, T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, Yaohua | |
dc.contributor.author | Xu, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Reifsnyder Hickey, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kundu, A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Almasi, H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bi, Chong | |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, X. | |
dc.contributor.author | Freeland, J. W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Keavney, D. J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sun, C. J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Xu, Y. H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Rosales, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cheng, X. M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Shufeng | |
dc.contributor.author | Mkhoyan, K. A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, W. G. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-23T18:01:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-23T18:01:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-05-16 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Voltage-controlled interlayer coupling in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic tunnel junctions 2017, 8:15232 Nature Communications | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-1723 | |
dc.identifier.pmid | 28508882 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/ncomms15232 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624333 | |
dc.description.abstract | Magnetic interlayer coupling is one of the central phenomena in spintronics. It has been predicted that the sign of interlayer coupling can be manipulated by electric fields, instead of electric currents, thereby offering a promising low energy magnetization switching mechanism. Here we present the experimental demonstration of voltage-controlled interlayer coupling in a new perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction system with a GdOx tunnel barrier, where a large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and a sizable tunnelling magnetoresistance have been achieved at room temperature. Owing to the interfacial nature of the magnetism, the ability to move oxygen vacancies within the barrier, and a large proximity-induced magnetization of GdOx, both the magnitude and the sign of the interlayer coupling in these junctions can be directly controlled by voltage. These results pave a new path towards achieving energy-efficient magnetization switching by controlling interlayer coupling. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | C-SPIN, one of six centres of STARnet; Semiconductor Research Corporation programme - MARCO; DARPA; National Science Foundation [ECCS-1554011]; Division of Scientific User Facilities of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE); NSF CAREER award [1053854]; DOE Office of Science [DE-AC02-06CH11357]; NSF through the UMN MRSEC program [DMR-1420013]; CSE Minnesota Nano Center, UMN - NSF through the NNIN program | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | en |
dc.relation.url | http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/ncomms15232 | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © The Author(s) 2017. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | en |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Electronic devices | en |
dc.subject | Magnetic properties and materials | en |
dc.subject | Spintronics | en |
dc.title | Voltage-controlled interlayer coupling in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic tunnel junctions | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.contributor.department | Univ Arizona, Dept Phys | en |
dc.identifier.journal | Nature Communications | en |
dc.description.collectioninformation | This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu. | en |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-07-01T15:08:13Z | |
html.description.abstract | Magnetic interlayer coupling is one of the central phenomena in spintronics. It has been predicted that the sign of interlayer coupling can be manipulated by electric fields, instead of electric currents, thereby offering a promising low energy magnetization switching mechanism. Here we present the experimental demonstration of voltage-controlled interlayer coupling in a new perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction system with a GdOx tunnel barrier, where a large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and a sizable tunnelling magnetoresistance have been achieved at room temperature. Owing to the interfacial nature of the magnetism, the ability to move oxygen vacancies within the barrier, and a large proximity-induced magnetization of GdOx, both the magnitude and the sign of the interlayer coupling in these junctions can be directly controlled by voltage. These results pave a new path towards achieving energy-efficient magnetization switching by controlling interlayer coupling. |