Quantum-Dot Devices and Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volumn 334, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 1147-1175

  Porod, Wolfgang ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; FINITE AUTOMATA; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR NETWORK ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

QUANTUM DOT CELLULAR AUTOMATA; QUANTUM DOT NONLINEAR NETWORKS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0031222090     PISSN: 00160032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-0032(97)00041-0     Document Type: Article

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