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Design and development of spin-torque-oscillator for microwave assisted magnetic recording

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K14802
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Physical properties of metals/Metal-base materials
Research InstitutionNational Institute for Materials Science

Principal Investigator

Sepehri-Amin Hossein  国立研究開発法人物質・材料研究機構, 磁性・スピントロニクス材料研究拠点, 主幹研究員 (10621758)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
KeywordsSpin torque oscillator / MAMR / spin polarization / spin accumulation / Simulations / Microstructure / spin-torque-oscillator / Micromagnetic simulation / Microstructure analysis / Magnetic recording / Magnetism / magnetic-recording / device analysis
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Microwave assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) is a promising technology to overcome the stagnated areal density increase of hard disk drives. However, its most essential part, spin-torque-oscillator (STO), has not been realized due to the lack of fundamental studies. In this work, we combined a novel micromagnetic simulation, device fabrications/analysis, and advanced structure/interface characterizations to design material/geometry for the STO devices with desired performance for MAMR. This innovative fundamental research lead to design and experimental demonstration of a new type of STO, all-in-plane STO for MAMR. We experimentally demonstrated the dynamics of the out-of-plane precession (OPP) mode oscillation for field generating layer with oscillation cone angle of 70o and frequency of 16 GHz. This fundamental study not only had a great academic impact but also has attracted a great attention from media industry.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

We successfully proposed and demonstrated a novel design of spin torque oscillator for the next generation of magnetic recording technology. This is important for our society to overcome the data storage capacity crisis. This work had a great impact in academia as well as HDD industries.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results,  Peer Reviewed: 4 results) Presentation (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Invited: 2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Design of spin-injection-layer in all-in-plane spin-torque-oscillator for microwave assisted magnetic recording2019

    • Author(s)
      H.Sepehri-Amin, W.Zhou, S.Bosu, C.Abert, Y.Sakuraba, S.Kasai, D.Suess, K.Hono
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

      Volume: 476 Pages: 361-370

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jmmm.2018.12.081

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Inducing out-of-plane precession of magnetization for microwave assisted magnetic recording using an oscillating spin polarizer in spin torque oscillator2019

    • Author(s)
      W. Zhou, H. Sepehri-Amin, T. Taniguchi, S. Tamaru, Y. sakuraba, S. Kasai, H. Kubota, K. Hono
    • Journal Title

      Applied Physics Letters

      Volume: - Issue: 17 Pages: 172403-172403

    • DOI

      10.1063/1.5086476

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Back-Hopping in Spin-Transfer-Torque Devices: Possible Origin and Countermeasures2018

    • Author(s)
      Claas Abert, Hossein Sepehri-Amin, Florian Bruckner, Christoph Vogler, Masamitsu Hayashi, Dieter Suess
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review Applied

      Volume: 9 Issue: 5

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevapplied.9.054010

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Back-hopping in spin-transfer-torque devices: Possible origin and countermeasures2018

    • Author(s)
      C. Abert, H. Sepehri-Amin, F. Bruckner, C. Vogler, M. Hayashi, D. Suess
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review Applied

      Volume: Accepted

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Design and development of all-in-plane spin-torque-oscillator for microwave assisted magnetic recording2018

    • Author(s)
      H. Sepehri-Amin
    • Organizer
      The 28th magnetic recording conference (TMRC2017)
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Design of field generating layer in all-in-plane spin-torque-oscillator2018

    • Author(s)
      H. Sepehri-Amin
    • Organizer
      Intermag 2018
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Design and development of spin-torque-oscillator for microwave assisted magnetic recording2017

    • Author(s)
      H. Sepehri-Amin
    • Organizer
      The 28th magnetic recording conference TMRC2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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