Experimental demonstration of a 1-bit full adder in perpendicular nanomagnetic logic

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4464-4467

  Breitkreutz, Stephan ^a   Kiermaier, Josef ^a   Eichwald, Irina ^a   Hildbrand, Christian ^a   Csaba, Gyorgy ^b   Schmitt Landsiedel, Doris ^a   Becherer, Markus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Full adder; logic circuit; nanomagnetic logic; perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT AMPLITUDE; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; FULL ADDERS; ION BEAM IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC BEHAVIOR; NANOMAGNETIC LOGIC; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

DECISION THEORY; LOGIC CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

NANOMAGNETICS;

EID: 84880772118     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2013.2243704     Document Type: Article

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