Principles of design of a set-reset finite state logic nanomachine

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Klein, Michael ^a   Levine, R D ^a,b   Remacle, F ^a,c,d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

FINITE STATE MACHINE; FINITE STATES; GATE ELECTRODES; NANO MACHINING; TUNNELING RATES;

DRAIN CURRENT;

EID: 50849092860     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2970060     Document Type: Article

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