Hybrid superconducting-magnetic memory device using competing order parameters

Burm Baek (), William H. Rippard, Samuel P. Benz, Stephen E. Russek and Paul D. Dresselhaus
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Burm Baek: National Institute of Standards and Technology
William H. Rippard: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Samuel P. Benz: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Stephen E. Russek: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paul D. Dresselhaus: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract In a hybrid superconducting-magnetic device, two order parameters compete, with one type of order suppressing the other. Recent interest in ultra-low-power, high-density cryogenic memories has spurred new efforts to simultaneously exploit superconducting and magnetic properties so as to create novel switching elements having these two competing orders. Here we describe a reconfigurable two-layer magnetic spin valve integrated within a Josephson junction. Our measurements separate the suppression in the superconducting coupling due to the exchange field in the magnetic layers, which causes depairing of the supercurrent, from the suppression due to the stray magnetic field. The exchange field suppression of the superconducting order parameter is a tunable and switchable behaviour that is also scalable to nanometer device dimensions. These devices demonstrate non-volatile, size-independent switching of Josephson coupling, in magnitude as well as phase, and they may enable practical nanoscale superconducting memory devices.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4888

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