Title :
Margin Comparison of Stoner–Wohlfarth MRAM and Zero Total Anisotropy Toggle Mode MRAM
Author :
Wang, Shengyuan ; Fujiwara, Hideo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Alabama Univ., Tuscaloosa, AL
Abstract :
The attainable operating field margin, giving the same requirements for the memory retention time and half-select robustness, was compared for the zero-total-anisotropy toggle (T)-MRAM with/without biasing and ordinary Stoner-Wohlfarth (SW) type MRAM by analytic/numeric method. It has been found that the margin increases monotonically with increasing the operating field for the T-MRAMs, while it reaches a constant value at a critical operating field for the ordinary SW type. The biased-T-MRAM can have the largest margin in the whole range of the operating field, T-MRAM without biasing comes next, with SW-MRAM giving similar margin as the latter in a lower operating field
Keywords :
magnetic anisotropy; magnetic storage; magnetic switching; magnetoresistive devices; random-access storage; Stoner-Wohlfarth MRAM; magnetoresistive random access memory; operating field margin; zero total anisotropy toggle mode MRAM; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Antiferromagnetic materials; Energy barrier; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic separation; Magnetostatics; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; Saturation magnetization; Shape; MRAM; Stoner–Wohlfarth; operating field margin; toggle mode;
Journal_Title :
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TMAG.2006.879727