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NUS Researchers Find Potential Solution To Overheating Mobile Phones

  • December 13, 2019
Future magnon torque based devices such as this could allow for faster electronic gadgets that require less power and do not overheat
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Modern computer memory encodes information by switching magnetic bits within devices. Now, a ground-breaking study conducted by researchers from NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering has found a new efficient way of using ‘spin waves’ to switch magnetisation at room temperature for more energy-efficient spin memory and logic devices.

Traditional electronic chips suffer from substantial ‘Joule heat’, which occurs due to the flow of an electric current producing high temperatures. It is caused by rapid motion and frequent collision among moving charges inside the devices. This severe issue not only causes a large amount of power dissipation, but also hinders the chip’s processing speed and limits the number of chips that can be incorporated into appliances.

Future magnon torque based devices such as this could allow for faster electronic gadgets that require less power and do not overheat

“We always encounter such problems and inconveniences when using our phones, computers and other electronic devices. We often find that these devices are becoming ‘hot’ and ‘slow’, moreover, we need to charge them frequently and have to bring another portable charger sometimes,” explained Professor Yang Hyunsoo, the team leader of this research.

So, rather than adopting standard electron injection methods used in traditional electronics, Prof Yang‘s team creatively used ‘spin waves’ to switch magnetisation. Spin waves are propagating disturbances in the ordering of magnetic materials, and from the quasiparticle point of view, spin waves are known as ‘magnons’.

The team built a bilayer system consisting of an antiferromagnetic magnon transport channel and a topological insulator spin source. In a world’s first, they then successfully demonstrated spin wave driven magnetisation switching in the adjacent ferromagnetic layer with a high efficiency at room temperature.

The new switching scheme based on spin waves can avoid moving charges. Therefore, much less Joule heat and power dissipation would be expected for devices. The advance of spin wave based switching could open a new avenue for energy-efficient chips.

The results of the study were published on 29 November 2019 in Science.

Spin waves and magnon torque

“The spin waves (magnons) can deliver spin information even in insulators without involving moving charges. This unique property potentially allows longer spin propagation but with lower dissipation compared to electron spins,” explained Dr Wang Yi, the first author of this work.

“Then we can control the magnetisation if we transfer the spin information from the magnons to the local magnetisation, which can be understood as ‘magnon torques’,” said Dr Wang. Just as a linear force is a push or a pull, a torque can be thought of as a twist to an object. “Hence, this new way to manipulate the magnetisation can be used for future data memory and logic devices,” he added.

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore has developed a revolutionary way to encode computational information without using electrical current. (Front: Dr Wang Yi; Back row from left: Prof Teo Kie Leong, Prof Yang Hyunsoo and Dr Zhu Dapeng)

Potential applications and next steps

“Our work first shows that the magnon torque is sufficient to switch the magnetisation at room temperature. Even the efficiency of the magnon torque is comparable with previously pursued electrical spin torque efficiency. We believe it can be substantially enhanced by engineering devices further, so that the magnon torque will become more energy efficient,” Prof Yang said.

“We know that the electrical spin torque has opened the era for spintronic device applications such as magnetic random access memories (MRAMs). We believe our report of the new magnon torque scheme for magnetisation switching is a game-changing idea in spintronics. It will invigorate not only a new research area in magnonics, but also practical devices operated by magnons,” Dr Wang stated.

Next, the research team will further engineer the efficiency of magnon torques and explore all magnon devices without involving electrical parts. In addition, the operation frequency of spin waves is in the terahertz range. Terahertz devices can transmit data at significantly higher speeds than currently possible. “Therefore, magnon torque based devices will allow the implementation of ultrahigh speed applications in the future,” Prof Yang said.

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