Published July 23, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurement-driven Langevin modeling of superparamagnetic tunnel junctions

  • 1. Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
  • 2. Associate, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
  • 3. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Grenoble INP, SPINTEC, 38000 Grenoble, France
  • 4. Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

Description

Superparamagnetic tunnel junctions are important devices for a range of emerging technologies, but most existing compact models capture only their mean switching rates. Capturing qualitatively accurate analog dynamics of these devices will be important as the technology scales up. Here we present results using a one-dimensional overdamped Langevin equation that captures statistical properties of measured time traces, including voltage histograms, drift and diffusion characteristics as measured with Kramers-Moyal coefficients, and dwell-time distributions. While common macrospin models are more physically motivated magnetic models than the Langevin model, we show that for the device measured here, they capture even fewer of the measured experimental behaviors.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Applied
Journal Volume
22
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
22 pgs.
ISSN
2331-7019

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Copyright
© 2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
70NANB14H209; ANR-21-CE94-0002-01
Notes
Contact Email: Contact author: matthew.daniels@nist.gov; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
NIST Cooperative Research Agreement; ANR StochNet Project