Spintronic devices: From memory to memristor

2010 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems, ICCCAS 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 811-816

  Chen, Yiran ^a   Li, Hai ^b   Wang, Xiaobin ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TIME; DEVICE MODELING; HP LABS; MEMORY DENSITY; MEMRISTOR; NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DESIGN; NONVOLATILITY; PASSIVE CIRCUITS; RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES; SPIN TRANSFER TORQUE; SPINTRONIC DEVICE; SPINTRONICS; STANDBY POWER; SYSTEM APPLICATIONS; WILLIAMS;

CIRCUIT THEORY; PASSIVE FILTERS; RESISTORS;

RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

EID: 78249238872     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCAS.2010.5581868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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