moving towards nanometer scales, quantum-dot cellular automata (qca) technology emerged as a novel solution, which can be a suitable replacement for complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (cmos) technology. the 3-input majority function and inverter gate are fundamental gates in the qca technology, which all logical functions are produced based on them. like cmos technology, making the basic c...

the full adders (fas) constitute the essential elements of digital systems, in a sense that they affect the circuit parameters of such systems. with respect to the mosfet restrictions, its replacement by new devices and technologies is inevitable. qca is one of the accomplishments in nanotechnology nominated as the candidate for mosfet replacement. in this article 4 new layouts are presented fo...

   Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) technology is a solution for implementation of the nanometer sized circuits and it can be a suitable replacement for CMOS. Similar to CMOS technology, designing the basic computational element such as adder with the QCA technology is regarded as one of the most important issues that extensive researches have been done about it. In this paper, a new eff...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are an emerging technology and a possible alternative for semiconductor transistor based technologies. A novel fault-tolerant QCA full-adder cell is proposed: This component is simple in structure and suitable for designing fault-tolerant QCA circuits. The redundant version of QCA full-adder cell is powerful in terms of implementing robust digital functions. ...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are an emerging technology and a possible alternative for semiconductor transistor based technologies. A novel fault-tolerant QCA full-adder cell is proposed: This component is simple in structure and suitable for designing fault-tolerant QCA circuits. The redundant version of QCA full-adder cell is powerful in terms of implementing robust digital functions. ...

Today, the use of CMOS technology for the manufacture of electronic ICs has faced many limitations. Many alternatives to CMOS technology are offered and made every day. Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is one of the most widely used. QCA gates and circuits have many advantages including small size, low power consumption and high speed. On the other hand, using special digital gates called re...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is a newly-developed nanotechnology for next-generation nanoelectronic circuits. QCA circuits use the propagation of charge polarity in QCA cells to pass information without any current being involved. It has the advantages of extremely small size, low power consumption, high device density and twinkling operation process. Nanofabrication of QCA circuits may ...

The most important mathematical operation is addition. Other operations such as subtraction, multiplication and division are usually implemented by adders. An efficient adder can be of great assistance in designing arithmetic circuits. QCA is a promising technology which seems to be a good candidate for the next generation of digital systems. So, an efficient QCA full-adder will facilitate crea...

Integrated Circuit (IC) Technology is growing day by day to enhance the circuit performance and to increase the density for compact systems. Conventional CMOS technology is playing a vital role in digital computation for past four decades. But there are certain challenges in scaling the CMOS devices for the last few years. A novel technology “Quantum dot Cellular Automata (QCA)” has been identi...