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Nanomagnet Logic (NML)

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We describe the background and evolution of our work on magnetic implementations of Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA), first called Magnetic QCA (MQCA), and now known as Nanomagnet Logic (NML).

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

    Wolfgang Porod, Gary H. Bernstein, György Csaba & Alexei Orlov

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

    Sharon X. Hu, Joseph Nahas & Michael T. Niemier

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Porod, W. et al. (2014). Nanomagnet Logic (NML). In: Anderson, N., Bhanja, S. (eds) Field-Coupled Nanocomputing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8280. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43722-3_2

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