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The MTJ macromodel has a modular design that includes four major
components. The four components are the electrode connections, decision
circuit, bistable circuit, and curve-fitting circuit.
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A transistor named Spin-flip transistor, a three terminal device consisting of an antiparallel spin valve in which the conducting channel is in contact
with a ferromagnetic base, had already been studied.The sourcedrain current
is modulated by the base magnetization direction, since the latter affects the
spin accumulation in the conducting channel.
In this paper the authors proposed a transistor named Spin torque
Transistor. They studied its operation as an amplifier.
The lower part of this device consists of source and drain contacts made
from high-coercivity metallic magnets with antiparallel magnetizations that
are biased by an electrochemical potential S .The sourcedrain electric current ISD induces a spin accumulation in the normal metal node N 1. A
spin-flip transistor is made by attaching an electrically floating base (or
gate) electrode B, which is magnetically very soft and has good electric contact to N1. When the magnetization angle is not 0 or a spin current
flows into the base that decreases the spin accumulation and increases ISD
with up to 2 . On the other hand, the spin accumulation in N1 exerts a
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References
[1] Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Arne Brataas, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, and Bart J.
van Wees. Spin-torque transistor. Applied Physics Letters, 82(22), 2003.
[2] J.D. Harms, F. Ebrahimi, Xiaofeng Yao, and Jian-Ping Wang. Spice
macromodel of spin-torque-transfer-operated magnetic tunnel junctions.
Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on, 57(6):14251430, June 2010.
[3] Yan Zhou, C. L. Zha, S. Bonetti, J. Persson, and Johan kerman. Spintorque oscillator with tilted fixed layer magnetization. Applied Physics
Letters, 92(26), 2008.
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