A Customizable Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Building Block for the Synthesis of Classical and Reversible Circuits

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are nanoscale digital logic constructs that use electrons in arrays of quantum dots to carry out binary operations. In this paper, a basic building block for QCA will be proposed. The proposed basic building block can be customized to implement classical gates, su...

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Main Authors: Ahmed Moustafa, Ahmed Younes, Yasser F. Hassan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/705056
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description Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are nanoscale digital logic constructs that use electrons in arrays of quantum dots to carry out binary operations. In this paper, a basic building block for QCA will be proposed. The proposed basic building block can be customized to implement classical gates, such as XOR and XNOR gates, and reversible gates, such as CNOT and Toffoli gates, with less cell count and/or better latency than other proposed designs.
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spelling doaj-art-eb753cd6a59a486793bc25a63d935d2f2025-08-20T02:22:21ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal2356-61401537-744X2015-01-01201510.1155/2015/705056705056A Customizable Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Building Block for the Synthesis of Classical and Reversible CircuitsAhmed Moustafa0Ahmed Younes1Yasser F. Hassan2Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21511, EgyptDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21511, EgyptDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21511, EgyptQuantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are nanoscale digital logic constructs that use electrons in arrays of quantum dots to carry out binary operations. In this paper, a basic building block for QCA will be proposed. The proposed basic building block can be customized to implement classical gates, such as XOR and XNOR gates, and reversible gates, such as CNOT and Toffoli gates, with less cell count and/or better latency than other proposed designs.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/705056
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title A Customizable Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Building Block for the Synthesis of Classical and Reversible Circuits
title_full A Customizable Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Building Block for the Synthesis of Classical and Reversible Circuits
title_fullStr A Customizable Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Building Block for the Synthesis of Classical and Reversible Circuits
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title_short A Customizable Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Building Block for the Synthesis of Classical and Reversible Circuits
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url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/705056
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