Alternate state variables for emerging nanoelectronic devices

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-75

  Galatsis, Kosmas ^a   Khitun, Alex ^a   Ostroumov, Roman ^a   Wang, Kang L ^a   Dichtel, William R ^b   Plummer, Edward ^a   Stoddart, J Fraser ^c   Zink, Jeffrey I ^a   Lee, Jae Young ^a   Xie, Ya Hong ^a   Kim, Ki Wook ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Logic; Memory; Molecular electronics; Nanodevices; Nanoelectronics; Nanotechnology; Spintronics; State variable

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

LOGIC; MEMORY; NANODEVICES; SPINTRONICS; STATE VARIABLE;

NANOELECTRONICS;

EID: 59049085887     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2008.2005525     Document Type: Article

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