Integrated logic circuits using single-atom transistors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 34, 2011, Pages 13969-13972

  Mol, J A ^a,b   Verduijn, J ^a,b   Levine, R D ^c,d   Remacle, F ^c,e   Rogge, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cascading full adder; CMOS technology; Energy and charge quantization

Indexed keywords

METAL OXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ELECTRONICS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SINGLE ATOM TRANSISTOR;

EID: 80052156724     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1109935108     Document Type: Article

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