Determination of lowest energy state in single-electron circuits

Electronics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 25, 1998, Pages 2401-2403

  Karafyllidis, I ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

COULOMB BLOCKADE EFFECT; SINGLE ELECTRON CIRCUITS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING;

EID: 0032256560     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19981675     Document Type: Article

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