Reconfigurable sub-micron spin-wave majority gate with electrical transducers

TL;DR

This paper presents a scalable, reconfigurable sub-micron spin-wave majority gate with electrical transducers, demonstrated through imaging and spectroscopy, advancing hybrid spintronic computing technology.

Contribution

The work introduces a co-integrable, sub-micron spin-wave majority gate with reconfigurable ports and multiplexing, filling a gap in scalable spintronic device development.

Findings

Demonstrated a sub-micron inline spin-wave majority gate with fan-out.

Achieved reconfigurable input and output ports.

Showed frequency-division multiplexing capability.

Abstract

Spin waves are excitations in ferromagnetic media that have been proposed as information carriers in hybrid spintronic devices with much lower operation power than conventional charge-based electronics. Their wave nature can be exploited in majority gates by using interference for computation. However, a scalable spin-wave majority gate that can be co-integrated alongside conventional electronics is still lacking. Here, we demonstrate a sub-micron inline spin-wave majority gate with fan-out. Time-resolved imaging of the magnetization dynamics by scanning transmission x-ray microscopy illustrates the device operation. All-electrical spin-wave spectroscopy further demonstrates majority gates with sub-micron dimensions, reconfigurable input and output ports, and frequency-division multiplexing. Challenges for hybrid spintronic computing systems based on spin-wave majority gates are discussed.