Evolutionary design of single electron systems

Proceedings - NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 109-116

  Thompson, Adrian ^a   Wasshuber, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; NASA;

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; ELECTRONICS DESIGN; EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN; NOR GATES; SINGLE ELECTRON; SINGLE-ELECTRON CIRCUITS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84949800889     PISSN: 15506029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EH.2000.869348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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