Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2009-11-11
Solid State Communications, Volume 149, Issues 39-40, October 2009, Pages 1684-1688
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
7 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.ssc.2009.06.018
We explore OR gate response in a mesoscopic ring threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$. The ring is symmetrically attached to two semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic electrodes and two gate voltages, viz, $V_a$ and $V_b$, are applied in one arm of the ring which are treated as the two inputs of the OR gate. All the calculations are based on the tight-binding model and the Green's function method, which numerically compute the conductance-energy and current-voltage characteristics as functions of the gate voltages, ring-to-electrodes coupling strengths and magnetic flux. Our theoretical study shows that, for $\phi=\phi_0/2$ ($\phi_0=ch/e$, the elementary flux-quantum) a high output current (1) (in the logical sense) appears if one or both the inputs to the gate are high (1), while if neither input is high (1), a low output current (0) appears. It clearly demonstrates the OR gate behavior and this aspect may be utilized in designing the electronic logic gate.
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