Magnetic Stochastic Oscillators: Noise-Induced Synchronization to Underthreshold Excitation and Comprehensive Compact Model

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Mizrahi, Alice ^a   Locatelli, Nicolas ^a   Matsumoto, Rie ^a   Fukushima, Akio ^a   Kubota, Hitoshi ^b   Yuasa, Shinji ^b   Cros, Vincent ^c   Kim, Joo Von ^c   Grollier, Julie ^a   Querlioz, Damien ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

bioinspired computing; magnetic tunnel junctions; Spintronics; stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT RESONANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; RESONANCE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTING; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; FAST SIMULATION; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; NOISE-INDUCED SYNCHRONIZATION; STOCHASTIC OSCILLATORS; STOCHASTIC RESONANCES; SUPERPARAMAGNETICS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84946119686     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2015.2439736     Document Type: Article

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