Electron-electron interactions between closely spaced nanoelectronic circuits constitute an alternative coupling mechanism to the inductive and capacitive couplings of conventional electronics. It was realized early on [1, 2] that “Coulomb mutual scattering” between spatially separated electronic systems provides a mechanism for momentum relaxation, which then leads to equalization of drift vel...

stacked metal-insulator-metal capacitors Dayu Zhou, U. Schroeder, Jin Xu, J. Heitmann, G. Jegert, W. Weinreich, M. Kerber, S. Knebel, E. Erben, and T. Mikolajick NaMLab gGmbH, Noethnitzer Str. 64, 01187 Dresden, Germany Fraunhofer Center Nanoelectronic Technologies, Koenigsbruecker Str. 180, 01099 Dresden, Germany Institute for Nanoelectronics, TU Munich, Arcisstr. 21, 80333 Munich, Germany Inf...

We describe a family of defect-tolerant demultiplexers based on error-correcting codes. A conventional demultiplexer with a k-bit input address and 2-bit output may be fortified against certain defect types by widening its address bus to n > k bits to permit an encoded address to be used within the demultiplexer. The redundant address is computed by an encoder that guarantees a minimum Hamming ...

While the end of Moore’s law has been predicted for many years, it appears that transistors may finally hit physical scaling limits and packing densities in the next ten to twenty years. This possibility has led to the development of many nanoelectronic devices such as carbon nanotubes, single electron transistors, molecular transistors, and quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) among others. One...

Quantum characteristics of a driven series RLC nanoelectronic circuit whose capacitance varies with time are studied using an invariant operator method together with a unitary transformation approach. In particular, squeezing effects and nonclassical properties of a superposition state composed of two displaced squeezed number states of equal amplitude, but 180° out of phase, are investigated i...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are a transistorless computation approach which encodes binary information via configuration of charges among quantum dots. The fundamental QCA logic primitives are majority and inverter gates which can be utilized to design various QCA circuits. This study presents a novel approach to designing efficient QCA-based circuits based on Boolean expressions achiev...

We demonstrate how to configure and reconfigure a nanoelectronic nonlinear network to a universal set of logic gates by applying sequences of voltage pulses to the edges of the network. The nanoelectronic device is designed to consist of a self-assembled network of nanoparticles connected by two-terminal linker elements with hysteretic behaviour, allowing voltage-controlled switching between a ...