A memory apparatus is provided which comprises: a stack comprising a magnetic insulating material and a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD), wherein the magnetic insulating material has a first magnetization. The stack behaves as a free magnet. The apparatus includes a fixed magnet with a second magnetization. An interconnect is further provided which comprises a spin orbit material, wherein the interconnect is adjacent to the stack.

An electronic device may include a semiconductor memory, and the semiconductor memory may include a substrate; a variable resistance element formed over the substrate and exhibiting different resistance values representing different digital information, the variable resistance element including a free layer having a variable magnetization direction, a pinned layer having a fixed magnetization direction and a tunnel barrier layer interposed between the free layer and the pinned layer; and a blocking layer disposed on at least sidewalls of the variable resistance element, wherein the blocking layer may include a layer that is substantially free of nitrogen, oxygen or a combination thereof.

The present disclosure relates to a spin wave switch and a filter based on a magnonic crystal. According to one embodiment, a magnonic crystal device may include a ferromagnetic layer and an antiferromagnetic planar periodic structure set on the ferromagnetic layer. The magnonic crystal device of the present disclosure may be used as a spin wave switch to effectively regulate and control the transmission coefficient of the spin wave, or may be used as a spin wave filter to filter the spin wave of a specific frequency.

The apparatus and the method for terahertz-based reading of data recorded in the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY)-based magnetic memory provided. The apparatus comprises: a Terahertz Magnon Laser configured to generate THz magnons; wherein the Terahertz Magnon Laser further comprises a Magnon Gain Medium (MGM) configured to support generation of non-equilibrium Terahertz magnons after the electric current is applied across the Terahertz Magnon Laser. The apparatus further comprises a magnetic reading bridge coupled to the Magnon Gain Medium of the Terahertz Magnon Laser; the magnetic reading bridge also coupled to a Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY)-based magnetic memory cell; wherein magnetization of the magnetic reading bridge is induced by the overall magnetization of the RKKY)-based magnetic memory cell, and wherein the overall magnetization of the RKKY)-based magnetic memory cell is dependent on the information bit encoded into the magnetic memory cell, and wherein the encoded bit ‘1’ corresponds to the higher overall magnetization of the memory cell, and wherein the encoded bit ‘0’ corresponds to the lower overall magnetization of the memory cell. The apparatus further comprises a terahertz demodulator configured to demodulate the generated THz reading signal; wherein the higher detected THz frequency corresponds to reading bit ‘1’ encoded into the RKKY-based magnetic memory cell; and wherein the lower detected THz frequency corresponds to reading bit ‘0’ encoded into the RKKY-based magnetic memory cell.

An exchange-coupled film includes a antiferromagnetic layer and a pinned magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic layer stacked together, the antiferromagnetic layer having a structure including an IrMn layer, a first PtMn layer, a PtCr layer, and a second PtMn layer stacked in that order, the IrMn layer being in contact with the pinned magnetic layer. The second PtMn layer preferably has a thickness of more than 0 Å and less than 60 Å, in some cases. The PtCr layer preferably has a thickness of 100 Å or more, in some cases. The antiferromagnetic layer preferably has a total thickness of 200 Å or less, in some cases.

A method for tuning the frequency of THz radiation is provided. The method utilizes an apparatus comprising a spin injector, a tunnel junction coupled to the spin injector, and a ferromagnetic material coupled to the tunnel junction. The ferromagnetic material comprises a Magnon Gain Medium (MGM). The method comprises the step of applying a bias voltage to shift a Fermi level of the spin injector with respect to the Fermi level of the ferromagnetic material to initiate generation of non-equilibrium magnons by injecting minority electrons into the Magnon Gain Medium. The method further comprises the step of tuning a frequency of the generated THz radiation by changing the value of the bias voltage.

A detection method and sensors are provided for the rapid detection of chemicals, biological and non-biological, and a wide range of viruses using magnetic tunnel junction-based molecular spintronics devices (MTJMSD) that produce unique magnetic resonance signals before and after interacting with target chemical, biochemical, viral, and other molecular agents.

A magnetic sensing device includes a non-magnetic layer serving as a spacer and two magnetic layers that sandwich the spacer, and two oxide layers that sandwich the trilayer structure including the two magnetic layers and the spacer.

A perpendicular magnetoresistive element comprises (counting from the element bottom): a reference layer having magnetic anisotropy in a direction perpendicular to a film surface and having an invariable magnetization direction; a tunnel barrier layer; a crystalline recording layer having magnetic anisotropy in a direction perpendicular to a film surface and having a variable magnetization direction; an oxide buffer layer; and a cap layer, wherein the crystalline recording layer consists of a CoFe alloy that is substantially free of boron and has BCC (body-centered cubic) CoFe grains having epitaxial growth with (100) plane parallel to a film surface.

In an exchange coupling film that has a large magnetic field (Hex) in which the direction of magnetization of a fixed magnetic layer is reversed, high stability under high temperature conditions, and excellent strong-magnetic field resistance, an antiferromagnetic layer, a fixed magnetic layer, and a free magnetic layer are stacked, the antiferromagnetic layer is composed of a PtCr layer and an XMn layer (where X is Pt or Ir), the XMn layer is in contact with the fixed magnetic layer, and the fixed magnetic layer is made of iron, cobalt, an iron-cobalt alloy, or an iron-nickel alloy.