Circuit Architectures for Nanoscale Electronics
Wolfgang Porod, Professor at the Center for Nano Science and Technology University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Abstract
The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) has identified several candidates of emerging device and circuit technologies. In this talk an overview of these emerging nanoscale technologies and their use in nanoelectronic circuit architectures is presented. Specifically, circuit architectures will be discussed that are based on resonant-tunneling (RTD) and single-electron (SET) devices, carbon nanotube transistors, molecular electronic structures, quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), and cellular neural/nonlinear networks (CNN). Particular emphasis will be placed on circuit architectures based on direct physical (electrical or magnetic) interactions between neighboring devices to provide local interconnectivity.