DNA mediated transistors based on multi-valued logic

• Main Author: Arjun Kudva.
• Other Authors: Shu Jian Jun
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Symbolic and algebraic manipulation; DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Molecular electronics; DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Semiconductors; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Hardware::Arithmetic and logic structures; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Hardware::Logic design; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Theory of computation::Logics and meanings of programs; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Theory of computation::Mathematical logic and formal languages; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Hardware::Integrated circuits
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55074
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Multi-valued logic systems are domains in which logical operations, such as negations, conjunctions and disjunctions are performed on inputs that can take more than two truth-values. While current computing devices perform operations based on Boolean or two-valued logic using semiconductor-based circuitry, there is potential for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to be used as a medium for developing a multi-valued logic system on which logical operations can be done. Unlike semiconductor-based logic circuitry, a DNA mediated multi-valued logic system has the potential to perform far more complex operations with the speed, breadth, agility and parallelism at a level far beyond the capabilities of even the most advanced supercomputers that operate on the basis of Boolean logic. This project seeks to propose a new system of multi-valued logic that can be manipulated by DNA-mediated logic gates to perform logical operations. If successful, the system may be harnessed as the basis for DNA-based circuitry, the fabrication and implementation of which would be a significant advancement in the fields of nanotechnology and computer science.