Abstract
In several recent studies, the probabilistic nature of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) switching has been utilized rather than suppressed for proposals and demonstrations of specific or novel scenarios or applications, such as true random number generation, neural spike generation, stochastic computing (SC), and probabilistic spin logic. Among all schemes of operations for generating tunable random signals, dual-biasing is very simple but also robust against device variations. When an MTJ is connected to a voltage source with polarity encouraging parallel (P)-to-antiparallel (AP) switching by spin-transfer torque (STT), and under a static bias field that favors P-state, the MTJ can switch back and forth between two states randomly, due to the state-dependent modulation of current by the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) of the MTJ. In this work, we demonstrate bipolar random signal generation by connecting two MTJs in series with a voltage source.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1582-1587 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by the Center for Probabilistic Spin Logic for Low-Energy Boolean and Non-Boolean Computing (CAPSL) (one of the Nanoelectronic Computing Research (nCORE) centers as task 2759.001) and in part by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Program sponsored by the NSF under Grant 1739635.
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Keywords
- Bipolar encoding
- bipolar random signal
- magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ)
- magnetization reversal
- neuromorphic computing
- random number generation
- spin transfer torque (STT)
- stochastic computing (SC)
- tunnel magnetoresistance