Overcoming thermal noise in non-volatile spin wave logic

Abstract Spin waves are propagating disturbances in magnetically ordered materials, analogous to lattice waves in solid systems and are often described from a quasiparticle point of view as magnons. The attractive advantages of Joule-heat-free transmission of information, utilization of the phase of...

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Main Authors: Sourav Dutta, Dmitri E. Nikonov, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Ian A. Young, Azad Naeemi
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/bd5ae2ecb12d4c1f8a49b640bb0a5f1c
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Summary:Abstract Spin waves are propagating disturbances in magnetically ordered materials, analogous to lattice waves in solid systems and are often described from a quasiparticle point of view as magnons. The attractive advantages of Joule-heat-free transmission of information, utilization of the phase of the wave as an additional degree of freedom and lower footprint area compared to conventional charge-based devices have made spin waves or magnon spintronics a promising candidate for beyond-CMOS wave-based computation. However, any practical realization of an all-magnon based computing system must undergo the essential steps of a careful selection of materials and demonstrate robustness with respect to thermal noise or variability. Here, we aim at identifying suitable materials and theoretically demonstrate the possibility of achieving error-free clocked non-volatile spin wave logic device, even in the presence of thermal noise and clock jitter or clock skew.