Patents Represented by Attorney Marc Mayer
  • Patent number: 6060724
    Abstract: A quantum wire switch and a switching method for switching charge carriers between a first output and a second output utilizing quantum interference of the charge carriers. A quantum switch includes a quantum wire extending from an input to a first output, a second quantum wire extending from the input to a second output, and a third quantum wire extending between the first and second outputs, the three quantum wires together defining a ring. A controllable-length quantum wire electron stub tuner is connected to the ring. As charge carriers propagate from the input around the ring the stub tuner is used to control the quantum interference of the charge carriers resulting in local maxima and minima at various points around the ring. Setting the stub to a first length results in a local maximum at the first output and a local minimum at the second output, and the charge carriers can propagate to the first output and not the second output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Curt A. Flory, R. Stanley Williams