Implementing Single Electron Device in Standard CMOS Process

Download or read book Implementing Single Electron Device in Standard CMOS Process written by Mayank Bhatnagar and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single Electronics is the ability to control the movement of single electrons in a circuit. The single electron devices are expected to allow much higher densities of circuits than presently possible while permitting very low power applications. The devices available in literature do not conform to the conventional CMOS process and a resultant high investment for a new technology is blocking the progress of this field. We have proposed a simple design which is fully compliant with the contemporary CMOS process. Novel CMOS designs are implemented to allow measurement of the feeble output from SEDs. The existing circuit model for the single electron device are discussed and compared. A new model for the device is proposed which is a natural charge based model. A couple of new circuit designs are presented which use the SED, not as a switch but with its higher order functionality of quantizing charge.