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

• Igor I. Soloviev,
• Nikolay V. Klenov,
• Sergey V. Bakurskiy,
• Mikhail Yu. Kupriyanov,
• Alexander L. Gudkov and
• Anatoli S. Sidorenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2689–2710, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.269

• respect to computer circuits design. Possible ways of further research are outlined. Keywords: energy-efficient computing; Josephson memory; superconducting computer; superconductor digital electronics; superconductor logics; Introduction Intel, one of the world’s largest chipmakers, “has signaled a

• logic and memory, correspondingly. In the first part we start with the examination of the physical basis underlying the operation of logic circuits. Superconductor logics are presented by two main branches: digital single flux quantum (SFQ) logics and adiabatic superconductor logic (ASL). The basic

• [19]. A more detailed analysis shows that only adiabatic switching of logic cells improves the energy efficiency of superconducting circuits markedly [19]. Adiabatic superconductor logic Considered variants of superconductor logics have been proposed for non-adiabatic irreversible computation. Here