Proposal for nanoscale cascaded plasmonic majority gates for non-Boolean computation.

ABSTRACT: Surface-plasmon-polariton waves propagating at the interface between a metal and a dielectric, hold the key to future high-bandwidth, dense on-chip integrated logic circuits overcoming the diffraction limitation of photonics. While recent advances in plasmonic logic have witnessed the demonstration of basic and universal logic gates, these CMOS oriented digital logic gates cannot fully utilize the expressive power of this novel technology. Here, we aim at unraveling the true potential of plasmonics by exploiting an enhanced native functionality - the majority voter. Contrary to the state-of-the-art plasmonic logic devices, we use the phase of the wave instead of the intensity as the state or computational variable. We propose and demonstrate, via numerical simulations, a comprehensive sche

SUBMITTER: Dutta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5736723 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature