Magnetic Cellular Automata (MCA) arrays under spatially varying field

Magnetic Cellular Automata (MCA) arrays under spatially varying field Kumari, A. Bhanja, S. Electr. Eng. Dept., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA This paper appears in: Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference, 2009. NMDC '09. IEEE Publication Date: 2-5 June 2009 On page(s): 50 - 53 Location: Traverse City, MI ISBN: 978-1-4244-4695-7 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/NMDC.2009.5167567 Current Version Published: 2009-07-21

Abstract Magnetic Cellular Automata (MCA) is a variant of Quantum-dot-cellular automata (QCA) where neighboring single-domain nano-magnets (also termed as magnetic cell) process and propagate information (logic 1 or logic 0) through mutual interaction. The attractive nature of this framework is that not only room temperature operations are feasible but also interaction between neighbors is central to information processing as opposed to creating interference. In this work, we explore spatially moving Landauer clocking scheme for MCA arrays (length of eight, sixteen and thirty-two cells) and show the role and effectiveness of the clock in propagating logic signal from input to output without magnetic frustration. Simulation performed in OOMMF.