Computational study of spin-torque oscillator interactions for non-Boolean computing applications

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4447-4451

  Csaba, György ^a   Porod, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic computing devices; micromagnetic modeling; oscillator synchronization; oscillatory neural networks; spin torque oscillators

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE PROPERTIES; COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; COMPUTING DEVICES; MICROMAGNETIC MODELING; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; OSCILLATORY NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICES; SPIN-TORQUE OSCILLATORS;

PATTERN MATCHING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84880804822     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2013.2244202     Document Type: Article

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