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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2008
Nishant Patil, Mountain View, CA (US);
Subhasish Mitra, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nishant Patil, Mountain View, CA (US);
Subhasish Mitra, Palo Alto, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A logic cell that is immune to misaligned carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are positioned on a substrate. Contacts are formed on a layer of carbon nanotubes, including a first input contact, a second input contact, an output contact, a first gate region, and a second gate region. The output contact is positioned between the first input contact and the second input contact, and a cell region is provided bounded by a width of the output contact and residing between the first input contact and the second input contact. A nonconductive region is positioned in the layer of carbon nanotubes between any two or more of the plurality of contacts that, if shorted, would inhibit a logic function.