Self-assembly (‘building’) approaches can provide well-controlled structures and assemblies at the nanometer scale, but typically do not provide the specific structures or functionalities required for robust nanoelectronic circuits. One approach to realize high-density nanoelectronic circuits is to combine self-assembly techniques with more conventional semiconductor device and circuit approach...

Q: What is CMOL? A: The basic idea of hybrid CMOS/nanoelectronic circuits is to complement the CMOS stack with a few-layer nanoelectronic addon (Fig. 1a) in the form of a nanowire crossbar (Fig. 1b). This idea may be traced back at least to the pioneering paper by J. Heath et al. [1]; however, the authors of that work and several following works in which this concept has been developed (see, e....

Computer–added design of single-electron nanoelectronic circuits on quantum majority components has been implemented. Proposed methods building logic-arithmetic computing devices the combinational type, which implement an almost complete system logical functions in both and Boolean bases. Quantum cellular automata is a technology that emerged two decades ago, values states correspond to positio...

The recent development of the superlattice nanowire pattern transfer technique allows for the fabrication of arrays of nanowires at a diameter, pitch, aspect ratio, and regularity beyond competing approaches. Here, we report the fabrication of conducting Si nanowire arrays with wire widths and pitches of 10–20 and 40–50 nm, respectively, and resistivity values comparable to the bulk through the...

We demonstrate a fully tunable diode structure utilizing a fully suspended single-walled carbon nanotube. The diode's turn-on voltage under forward bias can be continuously tuned up to 4.3 V by controlling gate voltages, which is ∼6 times the nanotube band gap energy. Furthermore, the same device design can be configured into a backward diode by tuning the band-to-band tunneling current with ga...

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is one of the candidates among future nanoelectronic computing technologies. QCA is based on cells of coupled quantum dots. The QCA cells have features on the very low nanometer scale, much smaller than the present state of art size of the smallest transistor. The physical interaction between neighbouring cells has been exploited in the implementation of logi...

It is widely acknowledged that nanoelectronic devices will suffer from more manufacturing and operational faults than classical CMOS devices in large-scale integrated circuits. The confident use of these emerging technologies relies on our capacity to better understand their fault mechanisms, and our ability to deduce related fault models. These challenging goals are addressed in this paper for...

As the dominating CMOS technology is fast approaching a “brick wall,” new opportunities arise for competing solutions. Nanoelectronics has achieved several breakthroughs lately and promises to overcome many of the limitations intrinsic to current semiconductor approaches. Most of the results in this area reported until now focus on devices and interconnect; this work goes several steps further ...

This paper summarizes a strategy for development of an EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tool which is aimed to support the design of future nano-circuits. The problem with the existing EDA tools is that they do not explicitly consider reliability as a design criterion. Most of the tools that do consider reliability are not intended for the nanoelectronic industry and are very limited in the t...

Logic circuits and the ability to amplify electrical signals form the functional backbone of electronics along with the possibility to integrate multiple elements on the same chip. The miniaturization of electronic circuits is expected to reach fundamental limits in the near future. Two-dimensional materials such as single-layer MoS(2) represent the ultimate limit of miniaturization in the vert...