Single-electron circuit simulation

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E81-C, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-28

  Amakawa, Shuhei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coulomb blockade of tunneling; Master equation; Monte Carlo method; SET; SPICE

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

COULOMB BLOCKADE; SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSISTORS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SPICE;

TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0031652720     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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