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Reversible Flip-Flops in Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata

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Quantum-dot cellular automata is a new technology to design the efficient combinational and sequential circuits at the nano-scale. This technology has many desirable advantages compared to the CMOS technology such as low power consumption, less occupation area and low latency. These features make it suitable for use in flip-flop design. In this paper, with knowing the characteristics of reversible logic, we design new structures for flip-flops. The operations of these structures are evaluated with QCADesigner Version 2.0.3 simulator. In addition, we calculate the power dissipation of these structures by QCAPro tool. The results illustrated that proposed structures are efficient compared to the previous ones.

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    Samaneh Kazemi Rad & Saeed Rasouli Heikalabad

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Rad, S.K., Heikalabad, S.R. Reversible Flip-Flops in Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata. Int J Theor Phys 56, 2990–3004 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-017-3466-8

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