Programmable nanowire circuits for nanoprocessors

Nature

Volumn 470, Issue 7333, 2011, Pages 240-244

  Yan, Hao ^a   Choe, Hwan Sung ^b   Nam, Sungwoo ^b   Hu, Yongjie ^a   Das, Shamik ^c   Klemic, James F ^c   Ellenbogen, James C ^c   Lieber, Charles M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; CHROMIUM; GERMANIUM; GOLD; METAL OXIDE; NANOWIRE; SILICON; ZIRCONIUM OXIDE;

GERMANIUM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; ELECTRONICS; GERMANIUM; LOGIC; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; SILICON; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 79951480054     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09749     Document Type: Article

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