{"id":218200,"date":"2025-07-18T06:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/tunneling-magnetoresistance-in-altermagnetic-ruo%e2%82%82-based-magnetic-tunnel-junctions"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:25:24","slug":"tunneling-magnetoresistance-in-altermagnetic-ruo%e2%82%82-based-magnetic-tunnel-junctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/tunneling-magnetoresistance-in-altermagnetic-ruo%e2%82%82-based-magnetic-tunnel-junctions","title":{"rendered":"Tunneling magnetoresistance in altermagnetic RuO\u2082-based magnetic tunnel junctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tunneling-magnetoresistance-in-altermagnetic-ruoe28282-based-magnetic-tunnel-junctions3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team affiliated with UNIST announced the successful development of a novel semiconductor device that uses a new class of materials, known as altermagnetism. This breakthrough is expected to significantly advance the development of ultra-fast, energy-efficient AI semiconductor chips.<\/p>\n<p>Jointly led by Professor Jung-Woo Yoo from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor Changhee Sohn from the Department of Physics at UNIST, the team succeeded in fabricating <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+tunnel+junctions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic tunnel junctions<\/a> (MTJs) using altermagnetic ruthenium oxide (RuO<sub>2<\/sub>). They also measured a practical level of tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in these devices, demonstrating their potential for spintronic applications.<\/p>\n<p>The research was led by Seunghyun Noh from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Kyuhyun Kim from the Department of Physics at UNIST. The findings were published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> on June 20, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team affiliated with UNIST announced the successful development of a novel semiconductor device that uses a new class of materials, known as altermagnetism. This breakthrough is expected to significantly advance the development of ultra-fast, energy-efficient AI semiconductor chips. Jointly led by Professor Jung-Woo Yoo from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218200","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}