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Progress and outlook for MRAM technology

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Progress on improving the material structures, memory bits, thermal stability of the bits, and competitive architectures for GMR and MTJ based MRAM memories as well as the potential of these memories in the commercial memory market are discussed.
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We summarize the features of existing semiconductor memories and compare them to Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM),a semiconductor memory with magnetic bits for nonvolatile storage. MRAM architectures based on Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) and Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) cells are described. This paper will discuss our progress on improving the material structures, memory bits, thermal stability of the bits, and competitive architectures for GMR and MTJ based MRAM memories as well as the potential of these memories in the commercial memory market.

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Exchange bias in nanostructures

TL;DR: The phenomenology of exchange bias and related effects in nanostructures is reviewed in this paper, where the main applications of exchange biased nanostructure are summarized and the implications of the nanometer dimensions on some of the existing exchange bias theories are briefly discussed.
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Gate-tunable Room-temperature Ferromagnetism in Two-dimensional Fe 3 GeTe 2

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the itinerant ferromagnetic order persists in Fe3GeTe2 down to the monolayer with an out-of-plane magnetocrystalline anisotropy.
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Ordered magnetic nanostructures: fabrication and properties

TL;DR: The fabrication methods and physical properties of ordered magnetic nanostructures with dimensions on the submicron to nanometer scale are reviewed in this article, where various types of nanofabrication techniques are described, and their capabilities and limitations in achieving magnetic nano-structures are discussed.
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DFTL: a flash translation layer employing demand-based selective caching of page-level address mappings

TL;DR: This work proposes a complete paradigm shift in the design of the core FTL engine from the existing techniques with a Demand-based Flash Translation Layer (DFTL), which selectively caches page-level address mappings and develops a flash simulation framework called FlashSim.
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Gate-tunable Room-temperature Ferromagnetism in Two-dimensional Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the itinerant ferromagnetic order persists in Fe$_3$GeTe$_2$ down to monolayer with an out-of-plane magnetocrystalline anisotropy.
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Oscillatory magnetic exchange coupling through thin copper layers

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