Center for Spintronics Integrated Systems

The program covers the following seven research areas necessary to develop and demonstrate the full capabilities of spintronics based CMOS VLSIs.

 

• Spintronics materials
• Spintronics devices
• New spintronics materials and devices
• Spintronics processing
• Spintronics logic design and IP development
• Design tool development for spintronics VLSI
• Spintronics VLSI demonstration

 

Spintronics materials

• Advanced spintronics device materials for VLSI
• High thermal stability spintronics materials for ultimate scaling
• Spintronics material technology for leading edge wafer scale processing
• Tunnel barrier technology for low resistance devices

 

Spintronics devices

• Physics and technology of spin torque, switching probability, write cycle endurance, and ultrafast magnetization reversal
• Spintronics devices with low write current, high thermal stability, high TMR, and high reliability
• Nano-spintronics devices

 

New spintronics materials and devices

• New spintronics material and device structures
• Magnetic materials and devices for electric-field control
• Semiconductor spintronic materials and devices

 

 

Spintronics processing

• Leading edge wafer processing at Tsukuba Innovation Arena (TIA)
• Nano-device processing at Tohoku University
• Device processing technology embedded in leading edge Si process

 

Spintronics logic design and IP development

• Design and verification of spintronics logic integrated circuits
• Design for high-speed and stable operation of spintronics VLSI

Design tool development for spintronics VLSI

• Design flow of spintronics VLSI
• Design tool of spintronics VLSI

• MTJ model & circuit simulator

Spintronics VLSI demonstration

• Spintronics VLSI demonstration
• Education and training for spintronics VLSI