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It would therefore be unnecessary to develop and transition to a completely new digital logic system, but the novel behavior of these devices does offer an easier path to potentially better logic systems. While YBSs have been fabricated in the past, they have all suffered from either poor gate efficiency or significant leakage current. We believe that high-κ dielectric gates will solve this and have been working on fabricating such gates on a YBS, and we have thus far successfully fabricated functional three-terminal ballistic junctions. I have also created the basic framework for simulations of such devices using Silvaco Atlas, and have proposed several options to achieve the desired independent high-κ dielectric gates.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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Such YBSs can be easily be used to form traditional logic gates. It would therefore be unnecessary to develop and transition to a completely new digital logic system, but the novel behavior of these devices does offer an easier path to potentially better logic systems. While YBSs have been fabricated in the past, they have all suffered from either poor gate efficiency or significant leakage current. We believe that high-κ dielectric gates will solve this and have been working on fabricating such gates on a YBS, and we have thus far successfully fabricated functional three-terminal ballistic junctions. I have also created the basic framework for simulations of such devices using Silvaco Atlas, and have proposed several options to achieve the desired independent high-κ dielectric gates.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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