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Designing Reliable Digital Molecular Electronic Circuits

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Reliability is expected to be a critical challenge in designing future molecular electronic circuits. Using a compact model that captures the essential physics of the device, the effect on digital gate functionality of variations in the device parameters, as well as the improvements afforded by a TMR majority gate structure are quantified. It is shown that the improvement is substantial, showing the potential viability of such technologies in future massively integrated systems.

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  1. Engineering Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, UK

    Ci Lei & Dinesh Pamunuwa

  2. Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, UK

    Steven Bailey & Colin Lambert

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  1. Microelectronic Systems Laboratory STI-LSM, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, ELD339 Btiment ELD, Station 11, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Alexandre Schmid

  2. Business Administration, State University of New York,, 310b, 1400 Washington Ave.,, 12222, Albany, NY, USA

    Sanjay Goel

  3. College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University of Albany, 12222, Albany, NY, USA

    Wei Wang

  4. College of Information Technology, UAE University, P.O. Box 17555, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Valeriu Beiu

  5. Lausanne EPFL IC ISIM LSI1 INF 333 (Btment INF) Station 14, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Sandro Carrara

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Lei, C., Pamunuwa, D., Bailey, S., Lambert, C. (2009). Designing Reliable Digital Molecular Electronic Circuits. In: Schmid, A., Goel, S., Wang, W., Beiu, V., Carrara, S. (eds) Nano-Net. NanoNet 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04850-0_17

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