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Time-Resolved Photo-Emission Electron Microscopy of Nanomagnetic Logic Chains

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Ultrafast Magnetism I

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We report a time-resolved study of precessional timescale nanomagnetic logic dynamics. We find both the desired cascade-like signal transmission behavior as well as various logical defects. For cascade-like behavior, we observe an average settling time of ~100 picoseconds per nanomagnet.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the Advanced Light Source and Center for X-Ray Optics Nanofabrication Lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and the Marvell Nanofabrication Lab at the University of California, Berkeley for use of their facilities. This work was supported by the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Z. Gu, B. Lambson, M. Nowakowski & J. Bokor

  2. Thorlabs, Inc., 56 Sparta Avenue, Newton, NJ, 07860, USA

    R. Storz

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    M. Marcus, A. Doran, A. Young, A. Scholl, W. Chao & D. Carlton

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Correspondence to Z. Gu .

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  1. Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS), Université de Strasbourg and CNRS, Strasbourg, France

    Jean-Yves Bigot

  2. Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Wolfgang Hübner

  3. Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM), Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Theo Rasing

  4. Physics Department, The University of York, York, United Kingdom

    Roy Chantrell

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Gu, Z. et al. (2015). Time-Resolved Photo-Emission Electron Microscopy of Nanomagnetic Logic Chains. In: Bigot, JY., Hübner, W., Rasing, T., Chantrell, R. (eds) Ultrafast Magnetism I. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 159. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07743-7_87

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