Methods of chemically assembled electronic nanotechnology circuit fabrication
AssigneeCarnegie Mellon University
InventorsSeth Copen Goldstein, Daniel L. Rosewater
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Abstract
Chemically assembled electronic nanotechnology (CAEN) provides an alternative to using Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) for constructing circuits with feature sizes in the tens of nanometers. A molecular latch and a method using the latch that enables it to act as a state holding device, perform voltage restoration, and to provide I/O isolation is disclosed.
Claims26
A method for constructing a molecular nanoblock using chemically assembled electronic nanotechnology, comprising:
- forming an array of electrical wires on a substrate via a chemical self-assembly process;
- aligning the array of electrical wires;
- combining the array of electrical wires and forming a two dimensional grid-like structure;
- creating an active electronic device at an intersection point of two wires on the grid-like structure;
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- generating a defect map of the grid-like structure.
A method of fabricating a chemically assembled electronic nanotechnology molecular latch having an input and an output, comprising:
- forming a first resonant tunneling diode having a first end and a second end on a chemically assembled electronic nanotechnology grid-like structure forming a nanoblock;
- connecting a second resonant tunneling diode having a first end and a second end to the first resonant tunneling diode and forming a data node therebetween, wherein the second end of the first resonant tunneling diode is connected to the first end of the second resonant tunneling diode;
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- connecting an isolation circuit to the data node, wherein connecting the isolation circuit to the data node comprises connecting a first component between the data node and the output of the molecular latch.
A method of fabricating a chemically assembled electronic nanotechnology circuit, comprising:
- forming a chemically assembled electronic nanotechnology molecular nano-fabric;
- forming a plurality of clusters on the nano-fabric;
- forming a plurality of long lines and adjacently disposing the long lines to each of the clusters for communicating signals between the clusters;
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- forming a nanoblock in at least one of the clusters and connecting an in-line latch to the nanoblock.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.