SIMPLE AND STABLE SINGLE-ELECTRON LOGIC UTILIZING TUNNEL-JUNCTION LOAD

被引:28
作者
FUKUI, H
FUJISHIMA, M
HOH, K
机构
[1] Department of Electronic Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113
来源
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 1-REGULAR PAPERS SHORT NOTES & REVIEW PAPERS | 1995年 / 34卷 / 2B期
关键词
SINGLE-ELECTRON TUNNELING; COULOMB BLOCKADE; SINGLE-ELECTRON LOGIC; SET; SEL;
D O I
10.1143/JJAP.34.1345
中图分类号
O59 [应用物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
Novel tunnel-junction-load single-electron logic (SEL) was proposed, which is simpler than the complementary SEL and its output is more stable than that of the resistance-load SEL. We analyze the static operation of a tunnel-junction-load inverter by examining the map of stability domains and the dynamic operation using the Monte Carlo simulation. As a result, it ws found that the tunnel-junction SEL has sufficient gain when the temperature is under 4 mK, and operates properly even when two inverters having the same parameters are serially connected.
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页码:1345 / 1350
页数:6
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