Abstract
Spintronic computing promises superior energy efficiency and nonvolatility compared to conventional field-effect transistor logic. But, it has proven difficult to realize spintronic circuits with a versatile, scalable device design that is adaptable to emerging material physics. Here we present prototypes of a logic device that encode information in the position of a magnetic domain wall in a ferromagnetic wire. We show that a single three-terminal device can perform inverter and buffer operations. We demonstrate one device can drive two subsequent gates and logic propagation in a circuit of three inverters. This prototype demonstration shows that magnetic domain wall logic devices have the necessary characteristics for future computing, including nonlinearity, gain, cascadability, and room temperature operation.
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Introduction
There is great interest in encoding information in magnetic materials for future memory and logic1,2,3,4,5,6. Recent developments in perpendicular anisotropy materials7,8 and spin Hall effect-assisted domain wall (DW) switching9,10,11 have reduced the current density required to switch a magnet. Many groups are working on instantiations of magnetic logic and memory, for example, ratchet memory12, three-terminal magnetic random access memory13, majority logic gates14,15, nanomagnetic logic16 and mLogic17. These devices show promise for future computing, and work has been done to simulate and build them. However, so far, little work has shown experimentally verified DW-based devices that can perform logic, be used in circuits, and have a gate-like basic element that can be used to build more complex circuits.
In this work, we present magnetic device prototypes that are capable of integration in logic circuits and easily adaptable to the continuing advances in spintronics materials and scaling. The device is a memory cell that we adapt to logic. Information is stored in the position of a DW in a short, narrow ferromagnetic wire, written using spin-torque transfer18 from pulsed voltage clocks, and read out using a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ)19. The device is nonvolatile and is predicted to scale to switching energies competitive with field-effect transistors1. We demonstrate that a single device can perform buffer and inverter operations, one device can drive two subsequent devices and three devices in series act as a circuit of three inverters. These results provide a path for realizing spintronic circuits.
Results
Domain wall logic device structure
The prototype is shown schematically in Fig. 1a,b. It consists of two parts: a ferromagnetic wire containing a DW and a MTJ. The wire is composed of sputter-deposited thin films on a Si substrate: SiO2 (200 nm)/Ta (3 nm)/Co40Fe40B20 (t=4 nm)/MgO (1 nm). The CoFeB has in-plane magnetic anisotropy; while perpendicular anisotropy will be more energy-efficient in scaled devices1,20, as explored in ref. 1, for initial prototypes the logic behaviour is independent of anisotropy type. The MTJ stack is CoFeB (2.5 nm)/Ru (0.8 nm)/CoFeB (2.5 nm)/Ir20Mn80 (10 nm)/Ta (3 nm)/Ru (7 nm). There are three terminals: IN, CLK and OUT.
Figure 1c shows a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a fabricated device. The wire width is w=400 nm and is shaped into a curve to allow initialization of the DW using a globally applied field HI. Micromagnetic simulations predict that the DW is transverse, see Supplementary Fig. 1. The MTJ sits under the center electrode. The IN and CLK terminal pads are 5 μm × 5 μm MTJs used to contact the magnetic wire, much larger than the center MTJ. At this size there is negligible magnetoresistance in the pads due to pinholes in the MgO layer, so their tunnel junctions are ignored. The estimated series resistance of the pads is about 100 Ω, small compared with the wire resistance.
Device operation includes an initialization step, a write step and a read step. First, μ0HI=200 mT is applied to initialize the DW on the left, where μ0 is the permeability of free space. This field is large enough to saturate the magnetic moments in , such that when the field is removed a DW is nucleated along the field direction. By having a curved wire, we can set the initial DW position by choosing the field angle. The magnetization is parallel on either side of the MTJ, and its resistance is low (bit 1, Fig. 1a). See Supplementary Figs 2 and 3 for field-driven device characteristics. For current-driven behaviour, a 1-μs voltage pulse is applied to the IN terminal with CLK grounded. It is theoretically possible to use a three-phase sinusoidal clock to save energy1,21. If the input current, IIN, is above the threshold current of the DW, IT, then the current can translate the DW past the MTJ using current-induced DW motion22, switching the MTJ to a high-resistance state (bit 0, Fig. 1b). Most likely, the current-induced switching is a combination of spin transfer torque and heat-assisted depinning23. IT depends on both intrinsic and extrinsic pinning of the DW from sources such as line edge roughness24 and magnetocrystalline defects.
The device can then be read by a voltage pulse applied to CLK sunk to the input of the next device. The current at the output terminal, IOUT, will be high or low depending on the position of the DW, and can be fed into the next device stage. To avoid damage to the devices at high current density, DW motion is assisted by a global bias field HB, aligned parallel to the initial DW position. The bias field could be eliminated by using a magnetic material with lower IT, or by scaling the devices to smaller length scales. Simulations and experiments suggest that the current density required to depin a DW decreases with wire width to sub-50 nm sizes1,22.
Single device behaviour as inverter and buffer gates
A single device can be used as a logic gate when the current at the input terminal, IIN, is the sum of multiple input currents. Figure 2a shows an example of a device acting as an inverter, which can be used to do a two-input NAND operation, with parallel MTJ resistance RP=23.7 Ω, antiparallel MTJ resistance RAP=25.7 Ω, wire resistance Rw=1.18 kΩ and tunnel magnetoresistance TMR=(RAP−RP)/RP × 100=8.4% (ref. 25). Initialization with HI sets the MTJ initially in a parallel state (bit 1), with the DW on the left as in Fig. 1a,c. A bias field μ0HB =3.0 mT is then applied parallel to the DW. We apply a series of 1-μs voltage pulses, VIN, increasing in 0.05 V steps, to the IN terminal. Each input pulse is followed by a 100 mV d.c. voltage applied to the CLK terminal to measure the resistance through the MTJ, RMTJ. Between VIN=3.75 V to 3.80 V, corresponding to an input current of IT=3.099 mA±0.041 mA (with range determined by the voltage step) and current density JT=1.9 × 1012 A m−2, the DW is translated across the MTJ, switching the output from RP (high current, bit 1) to RAP (low current, bit 0).
The current is calculated using the circuit in Fig. 2b (inset), with the wire resistance represented by Rw=RLEFT+RRIGHT and the MTJ represented by a variable resistor RMTJ. For an isolated device, we define the input current as
where RS is the load resistor from the voltage supply. If we read each device using VOUT, then we define the output current for an isolated device as
Device stages are pulsed in sequence, where in each stage a device can also have an input resistor that is tuned to put the input current in the correct range to read the data from the previous stage. Thus, if the input current originates from two logic gates, with output resistances such that the input currents sum in the subsequent gate, then that device switches from 1 to 0 only when the input current exceeds IT. The resulting transfer characteristic is in Fig. 2b. The change in the MTJ resistance modulates the output current by ΔIOUT=8.96 μA, assuming a CLK voltage pulse of 3.80 V and no external load attached to the OUT terminal.
Figure 2c shows a device instead acting as a buffer gate. The buffer is shown for a different device: RP=46.5 Ω, RAP=52.1 Ω, Rw=1.10 kΩ, and TMR=12%. The device is initialized the same as previously. We program it to act as a buffer rather than an inverter by applying a higher bias field μ0HB=4.8 mT, above the field switch of the reference layer of the MTJ but below that of the DW, initializing the MTJ in the antiparallel state (bit 0). The DW switches across the MTJ between 3.96 and 3.97 V, or IT=3.441 mA±0.009 mA, JT=2.0 × 1012 A m−2. The output switches from high resistance (low current, bit 0) to low resistance (high current, bit 1). Across multiple devices, the transfer characteristic shows a very sharp switch between resistance states, ΔVIN<0.01 V, the limit of our voltage supply. This enables stable 0 and 1 outputs even with TMR=8–20% seen in our devices. At the switch, ΔIOUT/ΔIIN=3.1. In Fig. 2d we plot IOUT versus IIN for the isolated buffer device with VOUT=3.97 V. The change in current between the 0 and 1 output bits is ΔIOUT=28.8 μA assuming no output load.
While ΔIOUT=28.8 μA is an appreciable difference in current for stable 0 and 1 bits, the fractional output current change is ΔI/I=(IP−IAP)/IAP=0.3% of the bit 0 output current IAP,OUT=4.5 mA. In an ideal device, ΔI/I should be maximized for the best noise margin and potential fanout. Using Equation 2 with fixed VOUT, and assuming that the gate drives a single subsequent ferromagnetic wire, we find
If we define the output resistance in the parallel state ROUT=RP+RRIGHT and the load resistance RLOAD=RLEFT+RRIGHT+RS, then we can define a figure of merit
Equation 4 shows that the highest noise margin and fanout is obtained by maximizing the TMR and matching the MTJ parallel resistance and the resistance of the wire.
Figure 2d (inset) compares IOUT versus IIN of the original buffer device (black curve) to another tested device with higher Rw=2.54 kΩ, RP=12.4 Ω, and TMR=21% (blue curve). Even though the TMR is higher, since is also higher we find lower ΔI/I=0.1%. For a given wire resistivity and MTJ resistance-area product, we can reduce the ratio between the wire and MTJ resistances by properly choosing the size of the wire and the size of the MTJ. Future devices with size optimized for resistance instead of fabrication constraints are expected to exhibit a substantially larger percent change in current. Increasing the MTJ quality to TMR=100–600% (ref. 5) and choosing the wire and MTJ geometries to match and RP would increase ΔI/I up to 100–600%, and implementing PMA and spin Hall-induced switching could reduce power consumption and JT by 100 × (ref. 26).
Device variability and reversibility
In Fig. 3a we plot the threshold voltage, VT, versus HB for three different devices to assess the variability in VT=IT(Rw) and between devices. The DW depinning voltage is repeatable within ±(0.15±0.1) V at each bias field. This is without externally fabricated pinning, such as notches27, that can supply more repeatable depinning at the expense of higher depinning currents. There is a linear trend within a device, but variation between different devices. Devices 2 and 3 were fabricated at the same time from the same 10 mm × 10 mm thin-film wafer piece, while device 1 was fabricated at a different time from a separate wafer piece and shows higher device-to-device variation in the VT versus HB slope. Thus, we can conclude that the device-to-device variation seen in the prototypes arises from variations in fabrication, for example, electron-beam resist age and etching rates, and variation in the MgO thickness across the initial 3-inch diameter thin film wafer, which causes variation in TMR across the wafer.
We can estimate the zero-field current density from the linear trends: device 1 VT (HB=0)=6.27 V. Converting to I with Rw=4.4 kΩ, we find IT (HB=0)=1.4 mA and JT (HB=0)=8.75 × 1011 A m−2. This is in agreement with the current density needed to translate a DW in in-plane magnetic anisotropy wires20.
Figure 3b shows the reversibility behaviour of device 1. After initialization in the buffer configuration, at +2.9 V RMTJ switches low; reversing we see RMTJ switch high again at −4.8 V. HB is higher on the negative side of the loop since the field direction is less parallel to the DW.
Concatenation behaviour of multiple devices in circuits
Figure 4a is a SEM image showing three devices concatenated together, with device 1’s output feeding the input of device 2 and device 3. The dotted boxes identify devices shown in Fig. 1c. The initial state is conceptualized in Fig. 4a (inset). After initialization and μ0HB=2.0 mT, devices 1 and 2 are in an inverter configuration, and device 3 is a buffer. We then apply 1 μs voltage pulses to the CLK1 terminal with the CLK2/CLK3 terminals maintained at ground and all other terminals floating. Figure 4b shows RMTJ after each pulse. The output current from device 1 switches both device 2 and device 3, at 4.5 V±0.3 V and 4.7 V±0.2 V, respectively (range is from three experiment repeats). The resistance of device 1 remains unchanged because its DW is initialized on the left side of its wire, and thus we are able to read device 1 without disturbing its logic state. This demonstrates that one gate can drive two gates, and that we can read the state of device 1 and then use that output current as the input to write devices 2 and 3. We can power more than two gates by further increasing the voltage pulse amplitude or tuning the resistance-area product of the MTJ to output higher current.
Figure 5 shows a circuit of three inverters that concatenates three devices in series. The output of device 3 is fed back into the input of device 1. We initialize all devices in the inverter configuration, depicted in Fig. 5a. To drive the logic flow, we apply sequential voltage pulses to CLK1, CLK2 and then CLK3. For example, in Step 1, the voltage pulse applied to CLK1 with CLK2 grounded allows us to read device 1 while writing device 2. Since the output of device 1 is high (bit 1), the current is high enough to switch the DW in device 2, changing it from a 1 bit to a 0 bit. In Step 2, Fig. 5b, we apply a voltage pulse to CLK2 with CLK3 grounded to read device 2 while writing device 3. Since device 2’s output current is now low (bit 0), the DW in device 3 does not switch and it stays as a bit 1.
Figure 5c shows an SEM image of a fabricated three inverters circuit, initialized in the inverter configuration with μ0HB=3.0 mT. In Fig. 5d, we measure RMTJ as the information propagates around the circuit. The devices are clocked in sequence by 4.5-V pulses such that at each stage the data token is inverted. The voltage amplitude of 4.5 V is optimized for device 3, such that when device 2 is in the antiparallel state the DW of device 3 does not switch. To see the inverting operation, each resistance is normalized to its own RP. The output resistance at each pulse step oscillates between RP and RAP as we move around the circuit, showing oscillation between 1 and 0 bits. Operation is stopped after four steps because additional propagation requires a reset step to return all DWs to the left side. We expect that scaled down devices or materials with lower threshold currents should operate without the need of a bias field, allowing the reset to occur during reading.
In Fig. 6, we model the behaviour of a scaled three-inverter circuit using a transient micromagnetic/circuit simulation1 to predict scaling, switching energy, and switching delay. For the micromagnetic simulation, we use the Object-Oriented Micromagnetic Framework28 model with a current-induced DW motion extension29. We assume t=2.5 nm, w=15 nm, wire length 200 nm, TMR=100%, and material properties for in-plane anisotropy CoFeB (exchange energy 13 × 10−12 J m−1, damping parameter α=0.01, non-adiabatic parameter β=0.05, saturation magnetization MS=8 × 105 A m−1, and spin polarization factor P=0.4 (ref. 18)). The simulation inputs current and outputs the new DW position in the wire. We then convert the DW position to a new RMTJ value, which we input into the three-terminal SPICE circuit model30 shown in Fig. 2b. The circuit model calculates I and V at every node of the circuit, which we input back into the micromagnetic model. We repeat this iterative process every 0.05 ns over the timescale of interest.
Figure 6 shows the simulated transient circuit behaviour. The information flows sequentially, driven by 0.7 V, 2-ns clock pulses. At Step 1 (equivalent to Fig. 5a) we apply VCLK1, shown by the blue voltage pulse. The DW position versus time plot shows that the DW of device 2 switches across the device (green curve). At Step 2 (equivalent to Fig. 5b) we apply VCLK2, shown by the green voltage pulse. In the DW position versus time plot, the red curve represents the position of the DW in device 3, and we see that its DW does not switch at Step 2. This oscillatory behaviour is repeated in Step 3, Step 4 and so on. The data token is inverted every stage, meaning that the DW moves in every other device, for example, device 2 (green), device 1 (blue) and device 3 (red). The simulated circuit differs from the implementation, however, because the implementation uses a bias field. In the absence of the bias field in the scaled simulation, the logic resets itself during the read operation. By monitoring the IOUT node in the simulation, we see it oscillates between high current (bit 1, 32 μA) and low current (bit 0, 19 μA) depending on the DW position of device 3. The negative pulses in the current transient occur when current is flowing backward from the next gate.
Discussion
We have demonstrated the capability of DW-based devices as logic gates, including inverter, buffer, and circuit operation. The DW depinning is non-linear with a sharp switching threshold δV<0.01 V, allowing stable 0 and 1 bits below and above the DW depinning voltage. The gates exhibit gain, one gate can drive two subsequent gates, and the three-device circuits shows that they can be cascaded into circuits. The micromagnetic/circuit simulation shows analogous switching behaviour to the experiment in further scaled devices.
While the information is encoded in the DW position, the inputs and outputs are current, maintaining compatibility with conventional field-effect transistors. The gate architecture is simple and adaptable to recent advances in magnetic materials, allowing an increase in ΔI/I up to 100–600% and a reduction in power consumption and JT by 100 × . These results show that magnetic-based logic has a realistic path to implementation, and may provide the basis for digital systems at the end of the semiconductor roadmap.
Methods
Fabrication
Thin film growth was done using UHV d.c. magnetron sputtering31. The sample was annealed in situ at 280 °C for 30 min with MgO exposed to vacuum to crystalize the CoFeB layer, and ex situ at 300 °C for 1 h in a 1-tesla field to set the IrMn exchange bias. Patterning was done using hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ) electron-beam resist and a Raith 150 electron-beam lithography tool. The pattern was etched into the thin film using non-reactive ion beam etching. HSQ was used as a spin-on insulator to prevent shorting of the device. A further electron-beam lithography step using polymethyl methacrylate was done to open holes on top of the three terminals for electrical contact. The darker ellipse on top of the MTJ in Fig. 1c shows a hole patterned in the SiO2 insulating layer to electrically contact the MTJ top. Alignment of the hole on top of the MTJ to within 50 nm between two electron-beam lithography steps limited the initial size of the prototypes. Then Ta (5 nm)/Au (135 nm) electrodes were placed with an additional electron-beam lithography step.
Resistance and current-driven measurements
For testing, the devices were wire bonded to a chip carrier and placed in an electromagnet. A signal multiplexer alternated the device terminal connections between a resistance measuring set-up and a pulse driving set-up.
In the resistance measuring set-up, a lock-in amplifier performed a four-point resistance measurement by forcing a sinusoidal voltage (100 mV, 6.25 Hz quasi-DC) between one OUT terminal and the IN terminal and sensing the output voltage between a second OUT terminal and the CLK terminal. The forced current was known and kept low by a 100 kΩ ballast resistor connected in series with the measured resistance.
In the pulse driving set-up, a pulse generator provided the applied current pulse across the DW track between the IN and CLK terminals.
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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under contract ECCS-1101798 and the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program. We acknowledge the MIT NanoStructures Laboratory for fabrication, especially the support of Mark Mondol and James Daley.
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J.A.C.-I. designed the experiment, fabricated the devices and performed the measurements and analysis. S.S. assisted with fabrication and testing. S.D. contributed to the measurement set-up and assisted with analysis. E.R.E. grew the thin films. J.Z. and D.B. contributed to the measurement set-up. C.A.R. and M.A.B. designed the experiment, planned and supervised the project and contributed to the analysis.
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Currivan-Incorvia, J., Siddiqui, S., Dutta, S. et al. Logic circuit prototypes for three-terminal magnetic tunnel junctions with mobile domain walls. Nat Commun 7, 10275 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10275
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