{"id":109835,"date":"2020-07-12T16:24:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T23:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/next-generation-magnetic-memory-breakthrough-writing-data-in-under-a-nanosecond"},"modified":"2020-07-12T16:24:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T23:24:20","slug":"next-generation-magnetic-memory-breakthrough-writing-data-in-under-a-nanosecond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/next-generation-magnetic-memory-breakthrough-writing-data-in-under-a-nanosecond","title":{"rendered":"Next Generation Magnetic Memory Breakthrough: Writing Data in Under a Nanosecond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/next-generation-magnetic-memory-breakthrough-writing-data-in-under-a-nanosecond.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at ETH have measured the timing of single writing events in a novel magnetic memory device with a resolution of less than 100 picoseconds. Their results are relevant for the next generation of main memories based on magnetism.<\/p>\n<p>At the Department for Materials of the ETH in Zurich, Pietro Gambardella and his collaborators investigate tomorrow\u2019s memory devices. They should be fast, retain data reliably for a long time and also be cheap. So-called magnetic \u201crandom access memories\u201d (MRAM) achieve this quadrature of the circle by combining fast switching via electric currents with durable data storage in magnetic materials. A few years ago researchers could already show that a certain physical effect \u2013 the spin-orbit torque \u2013 makes particularly fast data storage possible. Now Gambardella\u2019s group, together with the R&amp;D-center IMEC in Belgium, managed to temporally resolve the exact dynamics of a single such storage event \u2013 and to use a few tricks to make it even faster.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetizing with single spins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at ETH have measured the timing of single writing events in a novel magnetic memory device with a resolution of less than 100 picoseconds. Their results are relevant for the next generation of main memories based on magnetism. At the Department for Materials of the ETH in Zurich, Pietro Gambardella and his collaborators investigate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}