Beyond Moore's technologies: operation principles of a superconductor alternative

II Soloviev, NV Klenov, SV Bakurskiy… - Beilstein journal of …, 2017 - beilstein-journals.org
The predictions of Moore's law are considered by experts to be valid until 2020 giving rise to
“post-Moore's” technologies afterwards. Energy efficiency is one of the major challenges in …

Dissipation and noise immunity in computation and communication

R Landauer - Nature, 1988 - nature.com
Reversible computers which carry out each step without discarding information can, in
principle, dissipate arbitrarily small amounts of energy per step if the computation is carried …

[PDF][PDF] RSFQ logic/memory family: A new Josephson-junction technology for sub-terahertz-clock-frequency digital systems

KK Likharev, VK Semenov - IEEE Transactions on Applied …, 1991 - picture.iczhiku.com
Recent developments of the rapid single-flux-quantum (RSFQ) circuit family are reviewed.
Elementary cells of the family can generate, pass, memorize, and reproduce picosecond …

Information is physical

R Landauer - Physics Today, 1991 - pubs.aip.org
Thermodynamics arose in the 19th century out of the attempt to understand the performance
limits of steam engines in a way that would anticipate all further inventions. Claude …

Energy-efficient single flux quantum technology

OA Mukhanov - IEEE Transactions on Applied …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Figures of merit connecting processing capabilities with power dissipated (OpS/Watt,
Joule/bit, etc.) are becoming dominant factors in choosing technologies for implementing the …

Mantle-derived fluids in diamond micro-inclusions

O Navon, ID Hutcheon, GR Rossman, GJ Wasserburg - Nature, 1988 - nature.com
Micro-inclusions in diamonds from Zaire and Botswana differ in composition from the more
common large inclusions of the peridotitic or eclogitic assemblages. These sub-micrometre …

Superconductor digital electronics: Scalability and energy efficiency issues

SK Tolpygo - Low Temperature Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Superconductor digital electronics using Josephson junctions as ultrafast switches and
magnetic-flux encoding of information was proposed over 30 years ago as a sub-terahertz …

RSFQ technology: Physics and devices

P Bunyk, K Likharev, D Zinoviev - International journal of high …, 2001 - World Scientific
Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum (RSFQ) logic, based on the representation of digital bits by
single quanta of magnetic flux in superconducting loops, may combine several-hundred …

Two types of mechanical reversible logic

RC Merkle - Nanotechnology, 1993 - iopscience.iop.org
The author describes two types of mechanical reversible logic which eliminate sliding
contact. In the first type, contact between parts, when it does occur, involves only pressure. In …

Reversible electronic logic using switches

RC Merkle - Nanotechnology, 1993 - iopscience.iop.org
Two methods of using switches to implement reversible computations are discussed. The
first method has an energy dissipation which is proportional to the square of the error in the …