Quantum dot cellular automata (QCA) is one of the emerging technologies in the area of nanoelectronics and is found to be an attractive alternative to conventional CMOS technology for several reasons. However, there have been no reports in the literature so far on QCA implementation of conventional reversible gates. In this work, we propose a novel and systematic approach for the QCA implementa...

Among the emerging technologies recently proposed as alternatives to the classic CMOS, Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is one of the most promising solutions to design area efficient and very high speed digital circuits. As transistors decrease in size more and more of them can be accommodated in a single die, thus increasing chip computational capabilities. However, transistors cannot get ...

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is one of the most substitute emerging nanotechnologies for electronic circuits, because of lower power consumption, higher speed and smaller size in comparison with CMOS technology. The basic devices, a Quantum-dot cell can be used to implement logic gates and wires. As it is the fundamental building block on nanotechnology circuits. By applying XOR gate the...

Quantum dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is one of the important nano-level technologies for implementation of both combinational and sequential systems. QCA have the potential to achieve low power dissipation and operate high speed at THZ frequencies. However large probability of occurrence fabrication defects in QCA, is a fundamental challenge to use this emerging technology. Because of these vari...

Quantum Cellular Automata is a promising nanotechnology that has been recognized as one of the top six emerging technology in future computers. We have developed a new methodology in design QCA 2:1 MUX having better area efficiency and less input to output delay. We have also shown that using this QCA 2:1 MUX as a unit higher MUX can also be designed. We verified the proposed design using simul...

The computational paradigm known as quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) encodes binary information in the charge configuration of Coulomb-coupled quantum-dot cells. Functioning QCA devices made of metal-dot cells have been fabricated and measured. We focus here on the issue of robustness in the presence of disorder and thermal fluctuations. We examine the performance of a semi-infinite QCA shif...

We can overcome the CMOS scaling problems with emerging Nanotechnology. In Nanotechnology the basic building block of digital design is QCA. The problem in design of decimal adders on Quantum dot cellular automata with reduction of QCA primitives is very limited. In this paper we present a BCD adder with less number of QCA primitives and it is compared with existing BCD adder designs. Our propo...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) technology is considered to be a possible alternative for circuit implementation in terms of energy efficiency, integration density and switching frequency. Multiplexer (MUX) can suitable candidate designing QCA circuits. In this paper, two different structures energy-efficient 2×1 MUX designs are proposed. These MUXes outperform the best existing design powe...

Abstract Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), due to its unique characteristics like low power consumption, nanoscale design, and high computing speed is considered as an emerging technology, it can be used alternative for CMOS technology in circuit design quantum computers the near future. XOR gate has many applications of digital circuits QCA. In this paper, efficient novel structure proposed...

In this paper, a novel quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) adder design is presented that reduces the number of QCA cells compared to previously reported designs. The proposed one-bit QCA adder structure is based on a new algorithm that requires only three majority gates and two inverters for the QCA addition. By connecting n one-bit QCA adders, we can obtain an n-bit carry look-ahead adder wit...