Implementing single electron device in standard CMOS process

Single Electronics is the ability to control the movement of single electrons in a circuit. The single electron devices are expected to allow much higher densities of circuits than presently possible while permitting very low power applications.;The devices available in literature do not conform to the conventional CMOS process and a resultant high investment for a new technology is blocking the progress of this field. We have proposed a simple design which is fully compliant with the contemporary CMOS process. Novel CMOS designs are implemented to allow measurement of the feeble output from SEDs.;The existing circuit model for the single electron device are discussed and compared. A new model for the device is proposed which is a natural charge based model. A couple of new circuit designs are presented which use the SED, not as a switch but with its higher order functionality of quantizing charge.