BY

S. JYOTHI
(006-08-8012)
 INTRODUCTION TO RACETRACK MEMORY
 DESCRPTION
 BASIC OPERATION
 CURRENT STATUS
 CHALLENGES AND HURDLES
 FEATURES
 FUTURE SCOPE
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES
 Experimental non-volatile memory
device under development.
 Incorporates the advantage of
Flash memory and Hard Disc Drive.
 Trying to become a “universal
memory” in the future.
 A disruptive technology based on recent
development in Spintronics and physics.

 Utilizes the spin of an electron for storing,

accessing and reading data
 In spintronics devices, information is stored
into spins as particular spin orientation.
 Racetrack Memory uses spin currents to
manipulate the magnetic domain walls which
stores data.
 A ‘magnetic domain’- region within a material
which has uniform magnetization.
 A U-shaped Permalloy wire
about 200nm long and 100nm
thick embedded into a silicon
chip.
 Read/Write mechanism near
the wire.
 Write operation
 Read operation
 Memory bit select
 Two main means of storing digital
information
 Solid-state Random Access Memories
 Magnetic Hard Disc Drives
 Imperfection in wires affected the
performance.
 Domain walls required high current
to move.
 Access time depends on position of
data.
 No moving parts
 Small size
 High storage capacity
 Low power consumption
 Offers high performance in an inexpensive
way
 Domain walls are moved by electric pulses
instead of magnetic field
 Length of nanoscopic wire can be
reduced.

 Multiple domain walls can be

moved together by a current.
 Racetrack Memory promises a novel
data storage device.
 Hard disc on a chip.
 Trying to become a ‘Universal Memory’
in the near future.
 www.nextbigfuture.com
 Stuart S. P. Parkin,* Masamitsu Hayashi, Luc
Thomas, Magnetic Domain-Wall
Racetrack Memory (Sciencemag.org, Vol 320,
2008)
 Interview of Stuart Parkin taken by
AzoNanoTechnology