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IOP Publishing, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 4S(53), p. 04ED03, 2014

DOI: 10.7567/jjap.53.04ed03

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A two-transistor bootstrap type selective device for spin-transfer-torque magnetic tunnel junctions

Journal article published in 2014 by Takashi Ohsawa, Shoji Ikeda ORCID, Takahiro Hanyu, Hideo Ohno, Tetsuo Endoh
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Two-transistor bootstrap type selective device for spin-transfer-torque magnetic tunnel junctions (STT-MTJs) is proposed that is smaller than the conventional ones with equivalent performance. The power supply voltage dependence of the area for the two-NFET bootstrap type selective device that can switch MTJs within 10 ns is compared with those of the conventional single-NFET, single-PFET, and CMOS type selective devices with the same performance in 90 nm technology node. It is found that the two-NFET bootstrap type selective device can be smaller than the conventional ones especially for the power supply voltage equal to or lower than 0.9 V. The two-NFET bootstrap type selective device is shown to maintain scalability to 32 nm node just like the CMOS one, while the conventional single-NFET and single-PFET selective devices fail to be scaled properly. This selective device can be applied to every high-performance MOS/MTJ hybrid circuit for increasing the integration density.