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Reconfigurable Plasmonic Logic Gates

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Reconfigurable one-, two-, and three-bit plasmonic logic gate configurations have been proposed, which work by covering a straight slot waveguide with materials with tunable dielectric constants, such as graphene. By encoding the logic states in the values of dielectric constants as opposed to different waveguides, the plasmon excitation problems are minimized and the simplified logic gate configurations could be easily implemented.

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This work was supported by a grant of Ministry of Research and Innovation, CNCS-UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0122, within PNCDI III.

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  1. Physics Faculty, University of Bucharest, P.O. Box MG-11, 077125, Bucharest, Romania

    Elena Vlădescu & Daniela Dragoman

  2. Academy of Romanian Scientists, Splaiul Independentei 54, 050094, Bucharest, Romania

    Daniela Dragoman

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Vlădescu, E., Dragoman, D. Reconfigurable Plasmonic Logic Gates. Plasmonics 13, 2189–2195 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-018-0737-z

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