2013•Unpublished venueRequires access
Future prospects of MRAM technologies
Shinji Yuasa, Akio Fukushima, Kay Yakushiji, Takayuki Nozaki, Makoto Konoto, H. Maehara, Hitoshi Kubota, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Hiroko Arai, Hiroshi Imamura, Koji Ando, Yoichi Shiota, Frédéric Bonell, Yoshishige Suzuki, N. Shimomura, E. Kitagawa, Junichi Ito, Shinobu Fujita, Kazutaka Abe, Kumiko Nomura, Hiroshi Noguchi, H. Yoda
Abstract
This paper presents a review and future prospects for the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect in magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and spin manipulation technologies such as spin-transfer torque (STT) for magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM). Major challenges for ultrahigh-density STT-MRAM with perpendicular magnetization and novel functional devices related to MRAM are discussed.