Paper Info
Title
A Inhibitor Sensitive, Collision Based Switching Like Transistor Element Using Periodic Traveling Waves And Cellular Automata
Abstract
The reaction-diffusion (RD) models describe the change in the behavior of one or more chemical substances through space and time. The RD interaction can create waves of chemical concentration when the chemical systems used are far from equilibrium. The velocity and direction of those waves can be controlled and altered using excitable media or inhibitors. In particular, excitable media are spatially distributed systems characterized by their ability to propagate signals undamped over long distances, while inhibitors are used to reduce the propagation of those signals. The behavior of chemical oscillators are based on such media. The concept of this article is the proposal of a Cellular Automaton (CA) model which exploits the wave propagation characteristics on an excitable medium using inhibitors to create a switching element which is capable of distinguishing two binary states and present a form of amplification, like a basic transistor. In such a sense an unconventional chemical made device with properties similar to the conventional basic element of todays electronics, namely CMOS transistor is conceived. Furthermore, and in order to properly explore the potential of the proposed device, we design a combination of two of those transistors to prove that they can reproduce Boolean algebra by creating two of the most well known and important component, i.e. the inverter NOT logic gate and the universal logic gate NAND.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2018
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTING
Excitable media, reaction-diffusion, wave propagation, cellular automata, transistor
Field
DocType
Volume
Cellular automaton,Topology,Traveling wave,Collision,Transistor,Periodic graph (geometry),Physics
Journal
13
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4-5
1548-7199
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikolaos Dourvas1164.23
Sirakoulis Georgios Ch.230660.41