A line-based parallel memory for QCA implementation

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 690-698

  Vankamamidi, Vamsi ^b   Ottavi, Marco ^a,b   Lombardi, Fabrizio ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging technologies; Memory architecture; Quantum computing; Quantum dot cellular automata (QCA)

Indexed keywords

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; QUANTUM COMPUTING; QUANTUM-DOT CELLULAR AUTOMATA (QCA);

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 28444482843     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2005.858589     Document Type: Article

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