Nanotechnologies for Low Power
J. Gautier · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2005
The conventional approach to improve the performance of circuits is to scale down the devices and technologies. This is also convenient to lower the power consumption per function. In this chapter, we overview the potential of nanotechnologies for this purpose, with emphasis on few-electron devices in the case of room-temperature operation. Other devices, especially carbon nanotube transistors, resonant tunnelling diodes and quantum cellular automata, are briefly discussed.