Comprehensive and Macrospin-Based Magnetic Tunnel Junction Spin Torque Oscillator Model-Part I: Analytical Model of the MTJ STO

Chen, Tingsu, Eklund, Anders, Iacocca, Ezio, Rodriguez, Saul, Malm, B. Gunnar, Akerman, Johan and Rusu, Ana (2015) Comprehensive and Macrospin-Based Magnetic Tunnel Junction Spin Torque Oscillator Model-Part I: Analytical Model of the MTJ STO. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 62 (3). pp. 1037-1044. ISSN 0018-9383

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Abstract

Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) spin torque oscillators (STOs) have shown the potential to be used in a wide range of microwave and sensing applications. To evaluate the potential uses of MTJ STO technology in various applications, an analytical model that can capture MTJ STO's characteristics, while enabling system- and circuit-level designs, is of great importance. An analytical model based on macrospin approximation is necessary for these designs since it allows implementation in hardware description languages. This paper presents a new macrospin-based, comprehensive, and compact MTJ STO model, which can be used for various MTJ STOs to estimate the performance of MTJ STOs together with their application-specific integrated circuits. To adequately present the complete model, this paper is divided into two parts. In Part I, the analytical model is introduced and verified by comparing it against measured data of three different MTJ STOs, varying the angle and magnitude of the magnetic field, as well as the DC biasing current. The proposed analytical model is suitable for being implemented in Verilog-A and used for efficient simulations at device, circuit, and system levels. In Part II, the full Verilog-A implementation of the analytical model with accurate phase noise generation is presented and verified by simulations.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Analytical model, macrospin, magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), spin torque oscillator (STO).
Subjects: F300 Physics
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 09 Oct 2019 10:43
Last Modified: 01 Aug 2021 10:07
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41051

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