Optical computing and logic circuits represent a transformative approach to information processing, utilising light rather than electrons to execute computational tasks.

Modern digital logic, which is used in computers and cell phones, is based on Boolean algebra implemented in semiconductor switch-based circuits. It uses zeroes and ones for encoding and processing ...

In a proof-of-concept study, researchers have created self-assembled, protein-based circuits that can perform simple logic functions. The work demonstrates that it is possible to create stable ...

Researchers have invented a new organic polymer tunnel diode -- an electronic component that could one day lead to plastic computer memory and plastic logic circuits on computer chips. Today ...

Using techniques like logic synthesis, where whole high-level components can be laid down like a memory cache, the software generates circuits in the most efficient way possible.

Unlike reconfigurable circuits which already exist today, and are used, for example, in prototyping, a chaotic computer, Dr Ditto says, could be reconfigured so rapidly that it could perform ...

Multiple droplets of a magnetic fluid have been used to create all of the fundamental logic circuits within a computer. Created by researchers in the US, the circuits are made by having the ...