Keivan Navi, Mohammad Rashtian, Khatir, A, Keshavarzian, P, Hashemipour, O. High Speed Capacitor-Inverter Based Carbon Nanotube Full Adder. Nanoscale Research Letters, 5(5):859-862, 2010. [doi]
Carbon Nanotube filed-effect transistor (CNFET) is one of the promising alternatives to the MOS transistors. The geometry-dependent threshold voltage is one of the CNFET characteristics, which is used in the proposed Full Adder cell. In this paper, we present a high speed Full Adder cell using CNFETs based on majority-not (Minority) function. Presented design uses eight transistors and eight capacitors. Simulation results show significant improvement in terms of delay and power-delay product in comparison to contemporary CNFET Adder Cells. Simulations were carried out using HSPICE based on CNFET model with 0.6 V VDD.