Racetrack memory stores digital data in the magnetic domain walls of nanowires. This technology promises to yield information storage devices with high reliability, performance and capacity.
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Parkin, S., Yang, SH. Memory on the racetrack. Nature Nanotech 10, 195–198 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.41
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