Carbon nanotubes for quantum-dot cellular automata clocking

2004 4th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 171-173

  Frost, Sarah E ^a   Dysartf, Timothy J ^a   Koggef, Peter M ^a   Lent, Craig S ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STABILITY; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ALGEBRAIC OPERATIONS; CELL POLARIZATION; QUANTUM-DOT CELLULAR AUTOMATA (QCA); SETTLING TIMES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 20444375801     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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