MOLECULAR-JUNCTION-NANOWIRE-CROSSBAR-BASED INVERTER, LATCH, AND FLIP-FLOP CIRCUITS, AND MORE COMPLEX CIRCUITS COMPOSED, IN PART, FROM MOLECULAR-JUNCTION-NANOWIRE-CROSSBAR-BASED INVERTER, LATCH, AND FLIP-FLOP CIRCUITS
US6919740B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 31, 2003 |
| Grant date | Jul 19, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 13, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S977/94
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods for implementing familiar electronic circuits at nanoscale sizes using molecular-junction-nanowire crossbars, and nanoscale electronic circuits produced by the methods. In one embodiment of the present invention, a 3-state inverter is implemented. In a second embodiment of the present invention, two 3-state inverter circuits are combined to produce a transparent latch. The 3-state inverter circuit and transparent-latch circuit can then be used as a basis for constructing additional circuitry, including master/slave flip-flops, a transparent latch with asynchronous preset, a transparent latch with asynchronous clear, and a master/slave flip-flop with asynchronous preset. 3-state inverters can thus be used to compose latches and flip-flops, and latches and flip-flops can be used, along with additional Boolean circuitry, to compose a wide variety of useful, state-maintaining circuits, all implementable within molecular-junction-nanowire crossbars by selectively configuring junctions within the molecular-junction-nanowire crossbars.
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