Ultrahigh-speed Resonant-tunneling Analog-to-digital Converter
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A flash analog-to-digital converter, consisting of resonant-tunneling ternary quantizers and ternary-to-binary encoder circuits, is proposed. SPICE simulation exhibits a possible 10-GHz operation with reduced device counts and power dissipation, which are due to its compact circuit configuration.
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