Eliciting the Potential Functions of Single-Electron Circuits

• AKAZAWA Masamichi

  Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University

• AMEMIYA Yoshihito

  Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University

抄録

This paper describes a guiding principle for designing functional single-electron tunneling (SET) circuits-that is a way to elicit the potential functions of a given SET circuit by using as a guiding tool the SET circuit stability diagram. A stability diagram is a map that depicts the stable regions of a SET circuit based on the circuit's variable coordinates. By scrutinizing the diagram, we can infer all the potential functions that can be obtained from a circuit configuration. As an example, we take up a well-known SET-inverter circuit and uncover its latent functions by studying the circuit configuration, based on its stability diagram. We can produce various functions, e.g., step-inverter, Schmidt-trigger, memory cell, literal, and stochastic-neuron functions. The last function makes good use of the inherent stochastic nature of single-electron tunneling, and can be applied to Boltzmann-machine neural network systems.

収録刊行物

• IEICE transactions on electronics

  IEICE transactions on electronics 80 (7), 849-858, 1997-07-25

  一般社団法人電子情報通信学会

キーワード

• single-electron
• SET
• logic
• circuit
• stability diagram
• Boltzmann machine

詳細情報

• CRID: 1570009752557835136
• NII論文ID: 110003211280
• NII書誌ID: AA10826283
• ISSN: 09168524
• 本文言語コード: en
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