Analytical study of nano-scale logical operations

Article Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures

Abstract

A complete analytical prescription is given to perform three basic (OR, AND, NOT) and two universal (NAND, NOR) logic gates at nano-scale level using simple tailor made geometries. Two different geometries, ring-like and chain-like, are taken into account where in each case the bridging conductor is coupled to a local atomic site through a dangling bond whose site energy can be controlled by means of external gate electrode. The main idea is that when injecting electron energy matches with site energy of local atomic site transmission probability drops exactly to zero, whereas the junction exhibits finite transmission for other energies. Utilizing this prescription we perform logical operations, and, we strongly believe that the proposed results can be verified in laboratory. Finally, we numerically compute two-terminal transmission probability considering general models and the numerical results match exactly well with our analytical findings.

First Page

151

Last Page

156

DOI

10.1016/j.physe.2018.03.021

Publication Date

7-1-2018

Comments

All Open Access, Green

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