Experimental demonstration of clocked single-electron switching in quantum-dot cellular automata

被引：85

作者：

Orlov, AO ^{[1
]}

Amlani, I ^{[1
]}

Kummamuru, RK ^{[1
]}

Ramasubramaniam, R ^{[1
]}

Toth, G ^{[1
]}

Lent, CS ^{[1
]}

Bernstein, GH ^{[1
]}

Snider, GL ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Notre Dame, Dept Elect Engn, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA

来源：

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2000年 / 77卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.1063/1.126955

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

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摘要：

A device representing a basic building block for clocked quantum-dot cellular automata architecture is reported. Our device consists of three floating micron-size metal islands connected in series by two small tunnel junctions where the location of an excess electron is defined by electrostatic potentials on gates capacitively coupled to the islands. In this configuration, the middle dot acts as an adjustable Coulomb barrier allowing clocked control of the charge state of the device. Charging diagrams of the device show the existence of several operational modes, in good agreement with theory. The clocked switching of a single electron is experimentally demonstrated and advantages of this architecture are discussed. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(00)03428-8].

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页码：295 / 297

页数：3

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