{"id":221191,"date":"2025-08-30T04:14:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/interface-controlled-antiferromagnetic-tunnel-junctions-offer-new-path-for-next-gen-spintronics"},"modified":"2025-08-30T04:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:14:55","slug":"interface-controlled-antiferromagnetic-tunnel-junctions-offer-new-path-for-next-gen-spintronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/interface-controlled-antiferromagnetic-tunnel-junctions-offer-new-path-for-next-gen-spintronics","title":{"rendered":"Interface-controlled antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions offer new path for next-gen spintronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/interface-controlled-antiferromagnetic-tunnel-junctions-offer-new-path-for-next-gen-spintronics3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Prof. Shao Dingfu at the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has unveiled a new mechanism for achieving strong spin polarization using antiferromagnetic metal interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2950636025001343\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Newton<\/i> recently, propose a third prototype of antiferromagnetic tunnel junction (AFMTJ), paving the way for faster and denser spintronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>As electronics demand smaller size, higher speed, and lower energy use, spintronics\u2014using both electron charge and spin\u2014offers a strong alternative to traditional devices. Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), a key spintronics technology, are already used in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/data+storage\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">data storage<\/a> but face limits due to slow response speeds and unwanted magnetic fields from their ferromagnetic parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by Prof. Shao Dingfu at the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has unveiled a new mechanism for achieving strong spin polarization using antiferromagnetic metal interfaces. Their findings, published in Newton recently, propose a third prototype of antiferromagnetic tunnel junction [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221191","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=221191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}