Elucidating the dynamic properties of membranes is important for understanding fundamental cellular processes and for shedding light on the interactions of proteins, drugs, and viruses with the cell surface. Dynamic studies of lipid bilayers have been constrained, however, by the relatively small number of pertinent molecular probes and the limited physicochemical properties of the probes. We s...

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a promising, emerging nanotechnology based on single electron effects in quantum dots and molecules. While many logic implementations based on QCA devices have been proposed in literature [6, 7, 8], the inherent cellular structure of QCA cells make it a natural candidate for Cellular Automata (CA) implementation. CA offers regularity and modularity to the ...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is a novel and potentially attractive technology for implementing computing architectures at the nano-scale. By applying a set of simple layout rules, arbitrary circuits can be made using QCA cells. In this work, we describe the design and layout of a QCA random access memory (RAM), showing the layout of individual memory cells, as well as, a suggested layout...

This article describes the design of ultra-low-power multipliers on quantumdot cellular automata (QCA) nanotechnology, promising very dense circuits and high operating frequencies, using a single homogeneous layer of the basic cells. We construct structures without the earlier noise problems, verified by the QCADesigner coherence vector simulation. Our results show that the wiring overhead of t...

We consider the effects of interaction with the environment on decoherence in quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA). We model the environment as a Coulombically interacting random assembly of quantum double-dots. The time evolution of our model system þ environment is unitary and maintains one coherent state. We explicitly calculate the reduced density operators for the system and for the environ...

The use of buried dopants to construct quantum-dot cellular automata is investigated as an alternative to conventional electronic devices for information transport and elementary computation. This provides a limit in terms of miniaturization for this type of system as each potential well is formed by a single dopant atom. As an example, phosphorous donors in silicon are found to have good energ...

Quantum-dot cellular automata ~QCA!, arrays of coupled quantum-dot devices, are proposed for quantum computing. The notion of coherent QCA ~CQCA! is introduced in order to distinguish QCA applied to quantum computing from classical digital QCA. Information is encoded in the spatial state of the electrons in the multidot system. A line of CQCA cells can work as a quantum register. The basic sing...

We present an experimental demonstration of a fanout gate for quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), where a signal applied to a single input cell is amplified by that cell and sent to two output cells. Each cell is a single-electron latch composed of three metal dots, which are connected in series by tunnel junctions. Binary information is represented by an excess electron localized to one of th...

recently testing of quantum-dot cellular automata (qca) circuits has attracted a lot of attention. in this paper, qca is investigated for testable implementations of reversible logic. to amplify testability in reversible qca circuits, a test method regarding to built in self test technique is developed for detecting all simulated defects. a new reversible qca mux 2×1 design is proposed for the ...

In CMOS technology AND-OR combination logic is used because of the ease of its minimization using different established methodologies such as K-map. On the other hand, majority gatebased logic is not handled well in standard CMOS technologies, primarily because of the hardware inefficiencies in creating majority gates. As a result no optimization techniques of circuits based on majority gates w...