Energy barriers, Demons, and minimum energy operation of electronic devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5844, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-9

  Cavin III, Ralph K ^a   Zhirnov, Victor V ^a   Hutchby, James A ^a   Bourianoff, George I ^a,b  

^a SEMICONDUCTOR RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic Switching; Binary Switch; Energy barrier; Maxwell's Demon; Reversible Computing

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC SWITCHING; CHARGE DENSITY; ENERGY BARRIERS; MAXWELL DEMON; REVERSIBLE COMPUTING;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

THERMAL NOISE;

EID: 26244460034     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.613118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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