Design, simulation and performance evaluation of a NAND based single-electron 2-4 decoder

12th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 609-612

  Tsiolakis, T ^a   Alexiou, G Ph ^a   Konofaos, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decoder; NAND; Single electron

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO; NAND GATE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SINGLE ELECTRON;

DECODING; ELECTRONS;

DESIGN;

EID: 74549160993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSD.2009.240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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