Controlling the phase locking of stochastic magnetic bits for ultra-low power computation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Mizrahi, Alice ^a,b   Locatelli, Nicolas ^b   Lebrun, Romain ^a   Cros, Vincent ^a   Fukushima, Akio ^c   Kubota, Hitoshi ^c   Yuasa, Shinji ^c   Querlioz, Damien ^b   Grollier, Julie ^a  

^a UNITÉ MIXTE DE PHYSIQUE CNRS THALES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

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

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EID: 84979641017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep30535     Document Type: Article

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