Computing in thermal equilibrium with dipole-coupled nanomagnets

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1401-1404

  Carlton, David B ^a   Lambson, Brian ^a   Scholl, Andreas ^b   Young, Antony T ^b   Dhuey, Scott D ^b   Ashby, Paul D ^b   Tuchfeld, Eduard ^a   Bokor, Jeffrey ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital logic; nanomagnetism; post CMOS; spintronics

Indexed keywords

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL LOGIC; DIGITAL SIGNALS; EXTERNAL FIELDS; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; NANOMAGNETISMS; NANOMAGNETS; PHOTOEMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; POST CMOS; THERMAL BATH; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS;

LOGIC CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

NANOMAGNETICS;

EID: 81255144180     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2011.2152851     Document Type: Article

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