Design tools for an emerging SoC technology: Quantum-dot cellular automata

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1225-1243

  Walus, Konrad ^a,b   Jullien, Graham A ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computing; Design tools; Nanoelectronics; Quantum dot cellular automata (QCA); Scaling

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NANOELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCALING LAWS;

COMPUTING; DESIGN TOOLS; QUANTUM-DOT CELLULAR AUTOMATA (QCA); SCALING;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947422063     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.875791     Document Type: Article

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