Title :
Energy conservation in a circuit with single electron tunnel junctions
Author :
Klunder, Roelof H. ; Hoekstra, Jaap
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
Abstract :
Much research is currently being carried out in the field of nanoelectronic circuit design. One of the proposed quantum devices is the Single Electron Tunneling (SET) device. This SET device consists of a tunnel junction, through which only an integer number of electrons can tunnel. A new local tunnel condition is derived in this paper. The derivation is based on the discrete character of the tunnel current, represented by a delta function
Keywords :
analogue circuits; capacitance; circuit theory; energy storage; nanotechnology; tunnelling; SET device; delta function; energy conservation; local tunnel condition; nanoelectronic circuit design; quantum devices; single electron tunnel junctions; single electron tunneling device; tunnel current; Capacitors; Circuits; Electrons; Electrostatics; Energy conservation; Information technology; Insulation; Potential energy; Tunneling; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2001. ISCAS 2001. The 2001 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6685-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2001.921925
