The 68th JSAP Spring Meeting 2021

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10 Spintronics and Magnetics » 10.3 Spin devices, magnetic memories and storages

[17p-Z19-8~24] 10.3 Spin devices, magnetic memories and storages

Wed. Mar 17, 2021 3:15 PM - 7:45 PM Z19 (Z19)

Shun Kanai(Tohoku Univ.), Yuki Hibino(AIST)

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

[17p-Z19-13] Relaxation time of in-plane stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions

Shun Kanai1,2,3,4, Keisuke Hayakawa1, Takuya Funatsu1, William A. Borders1, Junta Igarashi1, Butsurin Jinnai5, Hideo Ohno1,2,4,5,6, Shunsuke Fukami1,2,4,5,6 (1.Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, RIEC, Tohoku University, 2.CSRN, Tohoku University, 3.DEFS, Tohoku University, 4.CSIS, Tohoku University, 5.WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University, 6.CIES, Tohoku University)

Keywords:spintronics, magnetic anisotropy, random telegraph noise (RTN)

Stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) have gathered much attention as a promising building block for probabilistic computing. Integer factorization has been demonstrated with stochastic MTJs with a perpendicular easy axis (p-MTJs) and milliseconds-long relaxation time t [1]. In contrast, t of in-plane easy-axis MTJs (i-MTJs) is reported to be down to sub-microseconds [2]. Here, we study the mechanism governing the different timescale of t in stochastic MTJs.
[1] W.A. Borders et al, Nature 573, 390 (2019). [2] B. Parks et al., Phys. Rev. Appl., 13, 014063 (2020).