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Readable High-Speed Racetrack Memory Based on an Antiferromagnetically Coupled Soft/Hard Magnetic Bilayer.

Ziyang Yu¹, Chenhuinan Wei², Fan Yi³

¹Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China. tommyu91@163.com.

Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)

|November 2, 2019

Summary

This study introduces a novel synthetic antiferromagnet racetrack memory. It enables readable information storage using staggered magnetic domains, overcoming challenges in antiferromagnetic memory systems.

Keywords:

antiferromagnetically coupled high-speed readable soft/hard magnetic bilayer

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Nanotechnology

Background:

Current-induced domain wall (DW) motion in synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) offers ultrahigh velocities for racetrack memory.
The zero net magnetization in antiferromagnetically (AFM) coupled domains poses challenges for information readout.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a readable SAF racetrack memory design.
To enable efficient information readout from SAF structures.

Main Methods:

Utilizing two ferromagnetic (FM) layers with distinct uniaxial-anisotropy constants.
Engineering a staggered domain region between neighboring DWs.
Exploiting parallel magnetization alignment for readability.

Main Results:

A readable staggered domain region is formed between DWs in the two FM layers.
This region exhibits parallel magnetization, allowing for information labeling.
Stability and length of the staggered region are tunable via magnetic parameters.

Conclusions:

The proposed readable SAF racetrack memory overcomes readout challenges in AFM systems.
Tunable magnetic parameters allow for optimized memory performance.
This design is compatible with existing experimental capabilities.