Spintronics as a Non-Volatile Complement to Modern Microelectronics
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Continuous miniaturization of semiconductor devices has been the main driver behind the outstanding increase of speed and performance of integrated circuits. In addition to a harmful active power penalty, small device dimensions result in rapidly rising leakages and fast growing stand-by power. The critical high power consumption becomes incompatible with the global demands to sustain and accelerate the vital industrial growth, and an introduction of new solutions for energy efficient computations becomes
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