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Virtual Lab: Quantum-dot Cellular Automata - Memory Cells
University of Virginia
             
 
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In computers of the future, transistors may be replaced by assemblies of quantum dots called "Quantum-dot Cellular Automata" (QCA’s).This page describes how QCA’s can store and move information. A second webpage (click here) describes how they can be assembled into logic gates.

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