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Cross-tie propagation using offset serration and cross-tie rocking action

US4410963A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 5, 1981
Grant dateOct 18, 1983
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Expiry dateOct 5, 2001

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C19/0841
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An improved magnetic memory system in which binary data are stored as cross-tie, Bloch-line pairs, which are serially propagated downstream along a cross-tie wall and a magnetizable layer by appropriate drive fields. The magnetizable layer is configured into a data track whose two mirror-image, opposing edges are formed into patterns of asymmetrically shaped edges which form successive narrow portions, or necks, with wide portions therebetween, and which shaped edges are formed about the geometric central line of the data track. The cross-ties are structured in the data track by opposite-edge necks at which the ends of the cross-tie are magnetically stable. The improvement comprises: PA0 forming a serpentine energy well along and about the geometric centerline of the data track, which energy well has the same period as the shaped edges; PA0 displacing the necks of the opposing edges one half the distance between adjacent necks along each edge; and, PA0 propagating the cross-tie, Bloch-line pairs along the data track by rocking alternate ends of the cross-tie from its associated neck to the next adjacent downstream neck.

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