Magnetic soliton-based logic with fan-out and crossover functions
- 20 September 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 85 (12), 2367-2369
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1794850
Abstract
A micromagnetic simulation is performed of a device consisting of arrays of square magnetic nanostructures, which is capable not only of basic logic operations but also controlled information transfer in linear, fan-out, and crossover manner by means of magnetic “solitons.” The square elements exhibit shape anisotropy, with easy axes along the diagonals. This enables the solitons to propagate around a bend in an array, or to fan-out into two distinct directions in Y-shaped arrays, in the presence of particular external field sequence and direction. Finally, independent soliton crossover at the intersection of two arrays is also demonstrated, which completes the device’s logical functionality.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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