Quasi-adiabatic Switching for Metal-Island Quantum-dot Cellular Automata
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2007-05-23 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
Recent experiments have demonstrated a working cell suitable for implementing the Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) paradigm. These experiments have been performed using metal island clusters. The most promising approach to QCA operation involves quasi-adiabatically switching the cells. This has been analyzed extensively in gated semiconductor cells. Here we present a metal island cell structure that makes quasi-adiabatic switching possible. We show how this permits quasi-adiabatic clocking, and enables a pipelined architecture.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0004457,
title = {Quasi-adiabatic Switching for Metal-Island Quantum-dot Cellular Automata},
author = {Geza Toth and Craig S. Lent},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0004457},
year = {2007}
}
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40 preprint-style double-spaced pages including 16 figures