Digital quantum batteries: Energy and information storage in nanovacuum tube arrays

Complexity

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 48-55

  Hübler, Alfred W ^a   Osuagwu, Onyeama ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Battery; High energy density; Information storage; Nano capacitor; Vacuum tube

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953521853     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20306     Document Type: Article

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