High-density magnetoresistive random access memory operating at ultralow voltage at room temperature
Open Access
- 1 September 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Communications
- Vol. 2 (1), 553
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1564
Abstract
The main bottlenecks limiting the practical applications of current magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) technology are its low storage density and high writing energy consumption. Although a number of proposals have been reported for voltage-controlled memory device in recent years, none of them simultaneously satisfy the important device attributes: high storage capacity, low power consumption and room temperature operation. Here we present, using phase-field simulations, a simple and new pathway towards high-performance MRAMs that display significant improvements over existing MRAM technologies or proposed concepts. The proposed nanoscale MRAM device simultaneously exhibits ultrahigh storage capacity of up to 88 Gb inch−2, ultralow power dissipation as low as 0.16 fJ per bit and room temperature high-speed operation below 10 ns.This publication has 42 references indexed in Scilit:
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