Voltage-driven spintronic logic gates in graphene nanoribbons

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Wenxing ^a  

^a TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84922573786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06320     Document Type: Article

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