A majority-logic device using an irreversible single-electron box

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-22

  Oya, Takahide ^a   Asai, Tetsuya ^a   Fukui, Takashi ^a   Amemiya, Yoshihito ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adder; Circuit; Gate; Majority logic; Single electron

Indexed keywords

ADDERS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRODES; LSI CIRCUITS;

GATE DEVICES; SINGLE ELECTRON BOXES; SINGLE ELECTRON CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY; SINGLE ELECTRON INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

LOGIC CIRCUITS;

EID: 2942713367     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2003.808507     Document Type: Article

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