Design of Ultrasmall Plasmonic Logic Gates Based on Single Nanoring Dielectric-Metal-Dielectric Waveguide

Table 11

The comparison of the plasmonic waveguide type, the number of resonators, the number of proposed logic gates, the size, the transmission threshold limit, the performance evaluation, the maximum of transmission, and complexity in our work and some other works.

References	Plasmonic waveguides	Number of resonators	Number of gates	Size	Transmission threshold limit	Performance measured	Tmax	Complexity
[5]	DMD	Two	All seven logic gates	400 nm × 400 nm	0.25	T, CR	175%	More
[34]	DMD	Two	One	350 nm × 350 nm	0.5	T	72%	More
[35]	DMD	Two	Five	200 nm × 400 nm	0.3	T, CR	152%	More
[36]	Hybrid DMD	Two	All seven logic gates	400 nm × 400 nm	0.3	T, CR, MD, IL	202%	More
[14]	DMD	Four	All seven logic gates	400 nm × 380 nm	0.25	T, ER	900 nm	More
							239%
							1330 nm
							187%
[37]	MDM	Two	Four	1269 nm × 669 nm	AND 0.28	T	95%	More
					OR 0.2
					NOT 0.2
[38]	MDM	None	Four	2 μm × 1.2 μm	0.1	T	35%	More
[39]	MDM	None	Two	For OR gate; 1125 nm × 1000 nm	0.3	T, CR	69%	More
				For NOR gate; >1125 nm × 1000 nm
[40]	MDM	One	Two	NOT 0.44, 0.47 μm	0.5	T, CR	82%	More
				NOR 0.86, 0.91 μm
[41]	MDM	One	Five	600 nm × 600 nm	0.35	T, CR	190%	More
[42]	MDM	Eight	Six	>1350 nm × 540 nm	Non	T	97%	More
[43]	MDM	Non	Two	In micro meter range	0.5	T, CR	90%	More
[44]	MDM	Non	Three	13 μm^2	0.5	T	90%	More
[44]	MDM	One	Four	About 1.5 μm × 1 μm	0.2	T, CR, gap-threshold ratio (GTR)	143%	More
This work	DMD	One	All seven logic gates	300 nm × 300 nm	0.35	T, CR, MD, IL, and CL	232%	Less