Magnetic Straintronics

This book covers the new field of straintronics, using strain switched nanomagnets for extremely energy-efficient computing, information processing, communication, and signal generation. Based on well-established CMOS technology, traditional electronics have two significant shortcomings: excessive energy dissipation and volatility, which is the inability to retain information after power has been switched off. Straintronics is more energy-efficient and non-volatile (but also more error-prone), allowing it to eclipse traditional electronics in niche areas that are increasingly attracting attention, such as image processing and probabilistic computing, computer vision, machine learning, neuromorphic networks, probabilistic computing, and belief networks. Magnetic Straintronics: An Energy-Efficient Hardware Paradigm for Digital and Analog Information Processing introduces straintronics and the technology's myriad applications for researchers, engineers, and scientists in electrical engineering, physics, and computer engineering.

Introduction to Straintronics.- The Physics Behind Straintronics.- Straintronic Logic and Memory.- Energy-efficiency Versus Reliability of Straintronic Logic and Memory.- Ternary Content-addressable Memory.- Analog Computing With Straintronic Devices.- High-Frequency Signal Generation With Straintronics.- Non-boolean Computing – Image Processing, Computer Vision, Belief Networks for Computing in the Presence of Uncertainty, and Probabilistic Computing.- Straintronic Antennas – Acoustic and Electromagnetic.- Long Term Vision.