Demonstration of a silicon-based quantum cellular automata cell
M. Mitić, Maja C. Cassidy, Karl D. Petersson, R.P. Starrett, E. Gauja, R. Brenner, R. G. Clark, Andrew S. Dzurak, Changyi Yang, David N. Jamieson · Applied Physics Letters · 2006
We report on the demonstration of a silicon-based quantum cellular automata (QCA) unit cell incorporating two pairs of metallically doped (n+) phosphorus-implanted nanoscale dots, separated from source and drain reservoirs by nominally undoped tunnel barriers. Metallic cell control gates, together with Al–AlOx single electron transistors for noninvasive cell-state readout, are located on the device surface and capacitively coupled to the buried QCA cell. Operation at subkelvin temperatures was demonstrated by switching of a single electron between output dots, induced by a driven single electron transfer in the input dots. The stability limits of the QCA cell operation were also determined.