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STT-MRAM交换的不稳定机制

Instability Mechanism for STT-MRAM switching

P. B. Visscher, Kamaram Munira, Robert J. Rosati

摘要:

为了优化STT-MRAM(自旋转移矩磁性随机存取存储器)的设计,有必要能够预测开关(错误)率。对于小元素,这可以使用单宏观自旋理论来完成,因为元素将准均匀地切换。开关率的实验结果表明,元素大到足以热稳定开关的某种机制具有较低的能量障碍。有人建议,这种机制是本地成核,但我们以前也报道了全球静磁不稳定性,这是符合较低的实验能垒。在本文中,我们试图确定这些机制是最重要的可视化切换的“U-NU”(均匀-非均匀)相图。我们发现切换轨迹遵循水平U轴(即,准均匀进动),直到它们达到临界幅度,在该临界幅度处,静磁不稳定性指数地增长,并且在中心处形成畴壁,畴壁的运动完成切换。我们曾试图诱导局部成核(在边缘处的畴壁),但没有成功。我们的结论是,占主导地位的开关机制不是边缘成核,但静磁不稳定性。

英文摘要:

To optimize the design of STT-MRAM (spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory), it is necessary to be able to predict switching (error) rates. For small elements, this can be done using a single-macrospin theory since the element will switch quasi-uniformly. Experimental results on switching rates suggest that elements large enough to be thermally stable switch by some mechanism with a lower energy barrier. It has been suggested that this mechanism is local nucleation, but we have also previously reported a global magnetostatic instability, which is consistent with the lower experimental energy barriers. In this paper, we try to determine which of these mechanisms is most important by visualizing the switching in a "U-NU" (uniform - nonuniform) phase diagram. We find that switching trajectories follow the horizontal U axis (i.e., quasi-uniform precession) until they reach a critical amplitude, at which the magnetostatic instability grows exponentially and a domain wall forms at the center, whose motion completes the switching. We have tried unsuccessfully to induce local nucleation (a domain wall at the edge). We conclude that the dominant switching mechanism is not edge nucleation, but the magnetostatic instability.

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