Magnetic ratchet for three-dimensional spintronic memory and logic

Nature

Volumn 494, Issue 7435, 2013, Pages 647-650

  Lavrijsen, Reinoud ^a   Lee, Ji Hyun ^a   Fernández Pacheco, Amalio ^a   Petit, Dorothée C M C ^a   Mansell, Rhodri ^a   Cowburn, Russell P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

CELL ORGANELLE; DATA SET; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MEMORY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; LOGIC; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMORY; MICROCHIP ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873659698     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11733     Document Type: Article

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