Massively parallel computing on an organic molecular layer

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 369-375

  Bandyopadhyay, Anirban ^a   Pati, Ranjit ^b   Sahu, Satyajit ^a   Peper, Ferdinand ^c   Fujita, Daisuke ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM; COMPUTATIONAL TASK; LOGICAL OPERATIONS; MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR SWITCHES; SEQUENTIAL APPROACH; SIMULATING NATURAL PHENOMENON; STATIC ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 77951998738     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1636     Document Type: Article

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