Performance of magnetic quantum cellular automata and limitations due to thermal noise

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 537-546

  Spedalieri, Federico M ^a   Jacob, Ajey P ^b   Nikonov, Dmitri E ^b   Roychowdhury, Vwani P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit error rate; magnetic logic devices; majority gate; micromagnetic simulation; nanomagnets; thermal fluctuations

Indexed keywords

BIAXIAL ANISOTROPY; GATE ERRORS; LOGIC OPERATIONS; MAJORITY GATES; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; NANOMAGNETS; OPERATION PARAMETERS; QUANTUM CELLULAR AUTOMATA; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTIC MAGNETIC FIELD; SWITCHING SPEED; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC LOGIC DEVICES; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

NANOMAGNETICS;

EID: 79955895859     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2010.2050597     Document Type: Article

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