Bennett clocking of quantum-dot cellular automata and the limits to binary logic scaling

Nanotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 4240-4251

  Lent, Craig S ^a   Liu, Mo ^a   Lu, Yuhui ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; BINARY CODES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA PROCESSING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; LOGIC CIRCUITS;

BINARY LOGIC SCALING; CIRCUIT COMPLEXITY; LANDAUER'S PRINCIPLE; QUANTUM-DOT CELLULAR AUTOMATA (QCA) CIRCUITS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 33748885828     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/17/16/040     Document Type: Article

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