Antiferromagnetic Material's Giant Stride Towards Application (IMAGE)

Tohoku University

Antiferromagnetic Material's Giant Stride Towards Application

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Fig.1: A schematic diagram of information storage using conventional ferromagnet (FM)-based spintronic devices (left) and the proposed antiferromagnets (AFMs)-based devices (right) (the arrows indicate magnetic moments). In FM-based devices (left), bits of information (state "1" or "0") are encoded in the orientation (red/up or blue/down) of the moments. The compensated structure of AFMs (right) entails unique advantages while posing significant hurdles at the same time.

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Samik DuttaGupta and Shunsuke Fukami

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