Magnetic domain-wall logic

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5741, 2005, Pages 1688-1692

  Allwood, D A ^a   Xiong, G ^b   Faulkner, C C ^c   Atkinson, D ^b   Petit, D ^c   Cowburn, R P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONS; LOGIC CIRCUITS; MICROMETERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

LOGIC ARCHITECTURE; MAGNETIC WIRES; MEMORY OPERATIONS; SIGNAL CROSS-OVER ELEMENTS;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

MAGNETIC PROPERTY;

DEVICE; ELECTRONICS; LOGIC; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MICROELECTRODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REVIEW; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPIN TRAPPING;

EID: 24644506125     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1108813     Document Type: Review

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40. This work was supported by Ingenia Holdings Ltd. D.A.A. and D.A. acknowledge the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for Advanced Research Fellowship nos. GR/T02942/01 and GR/SS1288/01, respectively. The work and results reported in this publication were obtained with research funding from the European Community under the Sixth Framework Programme Contract Number 510993: MAGLOG. The views expressed are solely those of the authors, and the other Contractors and/or the European Community cannot be held liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.