The charge stored on a capacitor is not quantized: it consists of polarization charges generated by displacing the electron gas with respect to the positive lattice ions and can take arbitrary magnitudes. The charge transfer across a tunnel junction, however, is quantized in units of the electron charge (singleelectron tunneling), and may be suppressed due to the Coulomb interaction (Coulomb bl...

Synchrony detection between burst and non-burst spikes is known to be one functional example of depressing synapses. Kanazawa et al. demonstrated synchrony detection with MOS depressing synapse circuits. They found that the performance of a network with depressing synapses that discriminates between burst and random input spikes increases non-monotonically as the static device mismatch is incre...

This paper describes, from the viewpoint of device fabrication, single-electron and quantum devices using silicon-oninsulators (SOIs). We point out that control of the oxidation of Si is quite important and could be the key to their fabrication. We also introduce our technique for making single-electron transistors (SETs), which uses special phenomena that occur during the oxidation of SOIs, an...

This paper outlines the method of constructing singleelectron logic circuits based on the binary decision diagram (BDD), a graphical representation of digital functions. The circuit consists of many unit devices, BDD devices, cascaded to build the tree of a BDD graph. Each BDD device corresponds to a node of the BDD graph and operates as a two-way switch for the transport of a single electron. ...

This paper presents an analytic current model for capacitively coupled Single-Electron Tunneling Transistors (SETTs) that is based on a modified M-state steady-state master equation. Based on this current model we also derive a current noise model for SETT. To validate the proposed models we calculate their characteristics at different device parameters and different operation temperatures and ...

Single-electronics circuits can detect charges much smaller than the charge of an electron. This enables phenomenally precise charge measurements but it also means that charged defects (often referred to as offset charges) can disrupt device operation. It has been suggested that large scale integration of single-electron devices could be used to construct fast logic circuits with a high device ...

We consider the quantum dot entangler device introduced by Oliver et al. [1] coupled to a single phonon mode. While we take the phonon interaction to all orders, we perform a fourth order calculation in electron-dot coupling. Using the Von Neumann entropy we measure the degree of entanglement. We find that the phonon mechanism habilitates single electron processes which manifest themselves as d...