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

Fluctuation and Noise Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

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

EID: 29144491741     PISSN: 02194775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219477505002951     Document Type: Article

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