Research Article

Two Novel Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Full Adders

Table 1

The comparison between our proposed designs and the best previous designs.

QCA full addersLayer’s numberComplexity (cells)Area ( m2)Latency (clk cycle)

Coplanar QCA FA [8]11450.171.25
Proposed QCA FA in Figure 811040.131
Multilayer QCA FA [6]3790.051.25
Proposed QCA FA in Figure 103630.050.75