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Non-majority MQCA magnetic logic gates and arrays based on misaligned magnetic islands

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posted on 2016-06-07, 00:00 authored by Gary H BernsteinGary H Bernstein, Michael Niemier, Mohammad T. Alam, Wolfgang Porod, Sharon Hu Xiaobo
A non-majority magnetic logic gate device for use in constructing compact and power efficient logical magnetic arrays is presented. The non-majority magnetic logic gate device includes a substrate, symmetrically aligned magnetic islands (SAMIs), at least one misaligned magnetic island (MAMI), magnetic field inputs (MFIs), and at least one magnetic field output (MFO). The SAMIs and MAMI are electrically isolated from each other but are magnetically coupled to one another through their respective magnetic fringe fields. The MAMI is geometrically and/or angularly configured to exhibit a magnetization ground state bias which is dependent upon which direction the applied magnetic clock field is swept. Non-majority logic gates can be made from layouts containing the SAMIs and the MAMI which contain a smaller number of components as comparable majority logic gate layouts.

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Patent Number

US 8058906 B2

Other Application

12/816,777

Inventor

Michael Niemier Mohammad T. Alam Gary H. Bernstein Xiaobo Sharon Hu Wolfgang Porod

Inventor from Local Institution

Michael Niemier Gary H. Bernstein Xiaobo Sharon Hu Wolfgang Porod

Assignee

University of Notre Dame Du Lac

Date Modified

2017-08-01

Language

  • English

Claims

33

Prior Publication Number

US 20100315123 A1

Publisher

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Cooperative Patent Classification Codes

B82Y 10/00 (20130101); B82Y 25/00 (20130101); G11C 11/14 (20130101); H01L 27/22 (20130101); G11C 19/0808 (20130101)

Contributor

Michael Niemier|Gary H. Bernstein|Xiaobo Sharon Hu|Wolfgang Porod

International Patent Classification Codes

H03K 19/20 (20060101); G06F 7/50 (20060101); H03K 19/21 (20060101)

US Patent Classification Codes

326/104; 326/52; 977/859; 977/940;

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