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AssigneeThe Regents of the University of California
InventorsJeffrey Bokor, Nathan C. Emley, David Carlton
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A method and system for propagating signals along a line of nanomagnets. Nanomagnets having an easy axis and a hard axis are provided a biaxial anisotropy term, which increases metastability along the hard axis. The nanomagnets are forced into hard-axis alignment. A magnetization direction of a first nanomagnet is caused to cant upward. Dipole coupling interactions between the first nanomagnet and an adjacent nanomagnet cause a magnetization direction of the adjacent nanomagnet to cant downward in an anti-parallel alignment. This cascade continues reliably along the line of nanomagnets. The biaxial anisotropy term provides additional stability along the hard axis to ensure the nanomagnets do not prematurely align along the easy axis. Various logic gates using nanomagnets, stabilizer nanomagnets, destabilizer nanomagnets, and magnetic diodes are also disclosed.
A structure, comprising:
An apparatus for propagating a signal, comprising:
A method of propagating a signal on a substrate comprising a plurality of nanomagnets, each of the plurality of nanomagnets comprising a first axis that is bistable and a second axis that is metastable, the plurality of nanomagnets being aligned with one another along one of the first axis and the second axis and sufficiently proximate to one another such that a magnetization direction of adjacent ones of the plurality of nanomagnets affect one another wherein a change in the magnetization direction of a first of the plurality of nanomagnets is propagated along remaining ones of the plurality of nanomagnets, the method comprising:
A structure, comprising:
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