TY - JOUR
T1 - Source Line Sensing in Magneto-Electric Random-Access Memory to Reduce Read Disturbance and Improve Sensing Margin
AU - Lee, Hochul
AU - Grezes, Cecile
AU - Wang, Shaodi
AU - Ebrahimi, Farbod
AU - Gupta, Puneet
AU - Amiri, Pedram Khalili
AU - Wang, Kang L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for TANMS. The authors would like to acknowledge the collaboration of this research with KACST via the CEGN
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - A source line sensing (SLS) scheme is presented, along with a corresponding memory core circuit architecture, for the sensing operation of magneto-electric random-access memory (MeRAM). Compared to a conventional bit-line sensing (BLS) scheme, the proposed SLS, which exploits the voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) effect, applies a voltage across the magneto-electric tunnel junction (MEJ) with an opposite polarity. The SLS significantly reduces read disturbance and increases the sensing margin due to the enhanced coercivity of the bit during the read operation. Experimental data demonstrate that the thermal stability of nanoscale MEJs increases up to 2 times during the SLS operation compared with conventional BLS. An MEJ compact model based the SLS simulation shows that read disturbance improves by a factor greater than 10{}^{9} fJ/V\cdot m and the sensing margin increases up to 3 times in the MEJ with the large VCMA coefficient \left(>\text{100}\ \text{fJ}/\text{V}\cdot\text{m}\right).
AB - A source line sensing (SLS) scheme is presented, along with a corresponding memory core circuit architecture, for the sensing operation of magneto-electric random-access memory (MeRAM). Compared to a conventional bit-line sensing (BLS) scheme, the proposed SLS, which exploits the voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) effect, applies a voltage across the magneto-electric tunnel junction (MEJ) with an opposite polarity. The SLS significantly reduces read disturbance and increases the sensing margin due to the enhanced coercivity of the bit during the read operation. Experimental data demonstrate that the thermal stability of nanoscale MEJs increases up to 2 times during the SLS operation compared with conventional BLS. An MEJ compact model based the SLS simulation shows that read disturbance improves by a factor greater than 10{}^{9} fJ/V\cdot m and the sensing margin increases up to 3 times in the MEJ with the large VCMA coefficient \left(>\text{100}\ \text{fJ}/\text{V}\cdot\text{m}\right).
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U2 - 10.1109/LMAG.2016.2552149
DO - 10.1109/LMAG.2016.2552149
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84977079522
SN - 1949-307X
VL - 7
JO - IEEE Magnetics Letters
JF - IEEE Magnetics Letters
M1 - 7448888
ER -