Scalable energy-efficient magnetoelectric spin–orbit logic

Manipatruni, Sasikanth; Nikonov, Dmitri E.; Lin, Chia-Ching; Gosavi, Tanay A.; Liu, Huichu; Prasad, Bhagwati; Huang, Yen-Lin; Bonturim, Everton; Ramesh, Ramamoorthy; Young, Ian A.

doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0770-2

Scalable energy-efficient magnetoelectric spin–orbit logic

Journal Article · Sun Dec 02 23:00:00 EST 2018 · Nature (London)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0770-2· OSTI ID:1487412

Manipatruni, Sasikanth ^[1]; Nikonov, Dmitri E. ^[1]; Lin, Chia-Ching ^[1]; Gosavi, Tanay A. ^[1]; Liu, Huichu ^[2]; Prasad, Bhagwati ^[3]; Huang, Yen-Lin ^[4]; Bonturim, Everton ^[3]; Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^[5]; Young, Ian A. ^[1]

Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR (United States). Components Research
Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA (United States). Intel Labs.
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, and Dept. of Physics; Lawrence and Dept. of PhysicsBerkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Since the early 1980s, most electronics have relied on the use of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) transistors. However, the principles of CMOS operation, involving a switchable semiconductor conductance controlled by an insulating gate, have remained largely unchanged, even as transistors are miniaturized to sizes of 10 nanometres. We investigated what dimensionally scalable logic technology beyond CMOS could provide improvements in efficiency and performance for von Neumann architectures and enable growth in emerging computing such as artifical intelligence. Such a computing technology needs to allow progressive miniaturization, reduce switching energy, improve device interconnection and provide a complete logic and memory family. Here we propose a scalable spintronic logic device that operates via spin–orbit transduction (the coupling of an electron’s angular momentum with its linear momentum) combined with magnetoelectric switching. The device uses advanced quantum materials, especially correlated oxides and topological states of matter, for collective switching and detection. We describe progress in magnetoelectric switching and spin–orbit detection of state, and show that in comparison with CMOS technology our device has superior switching energy (by a factor of 10 to 30), lower switching voltage (by a factor of 5) and enhanced logic density (by a factor of 5). Additionally, its non-volatility enables ultralow standby power, which is critical to modern computing. The properties of our device indicate that the proposed technology could enable the development of multi-generational computing.

Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

OSTI ID:: 1487412

Journal Information:: Nature (London), Journal Name: Nature (London) Journal Issue: 42 Vol. 565; ISSN 0028-0836

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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