Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Cascaded spintronic logic with low-dimensional carbon

  • Joseph S. Friedman,
  • Anuj Girdhar,
  • Ryan M. Gelfand,
  • Gokhan Memik,
  • Hooman Mohseni,
  • Allen Taflove,
  • Bruce W. Wessels,
  • Jean-Pierre Leburton,
  • Alan V Sahakian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15635
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Spintronics, graphene, and carbon nanotubes are potential components of next-generation high performance computers. Here, the authors propose and theoretically evaluate a spintronic logic family composed solely of carbon materials with the potential for a 100 × improvement in energy efficiency.