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The rising complexity of artificial intelligence and data-intensive applications drives the demand for memristive devices to support high-performance and scalable processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures. While three- and four-terminal spintronic PIM solutions show promise, they face scalability challenges due to large footprints. This study demonstrates a two-terminal spin-orbit torque (SOT)-driven giant magnetoresistance (GMR) memristive device utilizing a Pt/Co/Cu/CoTb stack, integrating data storage and logic functions within a single unit. Ten nonvolatile resistance states are achieved by modulating the SOT current amplitude, and additional states with opposite polarities are created by tuning the CoTb alloy composition. Synaptic plasticity, including long-term potentiation and depression, is demonstrated through current pulse modulation. Simulations of a deep neural network constructed with this GMR device achieve 92% accuracy in handwritten digit recognition and image visualization tasks. Moreover, basic Boolean logic functions further showcase the processing capabilities. This two-terminal GMR device offers a scalable solution for advanced memristive memory and in-memory computing.
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J Phys Chem Lett
September 2025
Shandong Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing & Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China.
A van der Waals (vdW) multiferroic tunnel junction (MFTJ) with tunneling electroresistance (TER) and tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) effects has emerged as a promising candidate for nonvolatile and multifunctional memory devices. However, simultaneously achieving giant TER and TMR ratios still faces significant hurdles. Here, a ScCO/FeBr multiferroic heterostructure is theoretically designed.
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August 2025
School of Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen 51817, China.
The discovery of unusual magnetoresistance (UMR) during the rotation of magnetization in the plane perpendicular to the electric current, which has been typically attributed to the magnetization-dependent interfacial reflection of the spin current, has had a remarkable impact on the understanding and application of a variety of spintronics phenomena. Here, we report that giant UMR occurs also in single-layer magnetic metals and exhibits high-order contributions and a universal sum rule, which agree well with the physics origin of the recently proposed two-vector magnetoresistance that simply considers electron scattering by the magnetization vector and interfacial electric field, without the need for any relevance to the spin/orbital current or crystalline symmetry. Revisiting of the literature data reveals that the most representative data that were used to claim spin Hall magnetoresistance or other magnetoresistances related or unrelated to spin current can be understood unifiedly by using the two-vector MR theory.
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August 2025
IPCMS, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, 67034 Strasbourg, France.
We explore a detection method for spin waves consisting in integrating a magnetoresistive sensor on a magnonic waveguide. When subjected to the stray magnetic field generated by the spin wave, the relative orientation of the magnetizations of the two magnetic layers in the sensor oscillates in time, resulting in an electrical resistance change according to the so-called giant magnetoresistance effect. Upon application of an appropriate current bias, this variation of resistance translates into a sizable microwave voltage.
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July 2025
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA.
We study the current scaling of the oscillatory magnetoresistance peak height in microwave induced magnetoresistance oscillations, over the temperature range [Formula: see text], by examining the change in response observed under a supplementary [Formula: see text] current bias, when the [Formula: see text] also produces an overall giant negative magnetoresistance in the high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs system. A "universality" is observed in the decay of the magnetoresistance peak height over the examined temperatures, sizes, and applied [Formula: see text]. The results suggest that the photoexcited resistance maxima are sensitive not to the DC current, but rather to the current density [Formula: see text].
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August 2025
Department of Physics, Engineering Research Center for Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Ministry of Education, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials and Applications, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P. R. China.
The 2D materials are promising channel materials for spin transistors due to their natural spatial-confined carrier transport character. Nonetheless, electrical spin injection and detection in 2D semiconductors used to be challenging. This study reports high-efficient spin injection and transport in 2D GeSe, which exhibits moderate spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and extended spin diffusion lengths due to the van der Waals structure.
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