Quantum Functional Devices: Resonant-Tunneling Transistors, Circuits with Reduced Complexity, and Multiple-Valued Logic

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1989, Pages 2065-2082

  Capasso, Fedepico ^a   Sen, Susanta ^a   Beltram, Fabio ^a   Lunardi, Leda M ^a   Vengurlekar, Arvind S ^a   Smith, Peter R ^a   Shah, Nitin J ^a   Malik, Roger J ^a   Cho, Alfred Y ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER METATHEORY--MANY VALUED LOGICS; DATA CONVERSION, ANALOG TO DIGITAL; LOGIC CIRCUITS, INTEGRATED INJECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

MULTIPLE VALUED LOGIC; QUANTUM FUNCTIONAL DEVICES;

TRANSISTORS, BIPOLAR;

EID: 0024750508     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.40888     Document Type: Article

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