Scalability prospect of three-terminal magnetic domain-wall motion device

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2152-2157

  Fukami, Shunsuke ^a   Ishiwata, Nobuyuki ^a   Kasai, Naoki ^a   Yamanouchi, Michihiko ^a   Sato, Hideo ^a   Ikeda, Shoji ^a   Ohno, Hideo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic domain walls; magnetic random access memory; nonvolatile logic; scalability

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL FIELDS; DATA STORAGE; DEVICE SIZES; DOMAIN WALL MOTION; LOGIC-IN-MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; LOW POWER; MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES; MOTION DEVICES; NON-VOLATILE; NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES; SCALING FACTORS; SCALING PROPERTIES; SIZE REDUCTIONS; SWITCHING CURRENTS; SWITCHING TIME;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC STORAGE; SCALABILITY;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84862993875     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2187792     Document Type: Article

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