Single-electron switch for phase-locked single-electron logic devices

Single-electron switch is proposed and analysed as a basic logic/memory component, in which binary unity/zero is represented by the presence/absence of a single-electron and the binary codes can be exchanged between different nodes by changing external biases. To realise single-electron switch, a novel side-gated FET structure is proposed. The performance of phase-locked single-electron logic, which is constructed by single-electron switches, is analysed from the measured tunnelling characteristics.<
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