Special Issue on Technology Challenges for Single Electron Devices ================================================================== . FOREWORD .......................................................... 1 Kenji TANIGUCHI PAPERS ====== . Gate Performance in Resonant Tunneling Single Electron Transistor . 2 Takashi HONDA, Seigo TARUCHA, and David Guy AUSTING . Quantum-Dot Based Opto-Electronic Device .......................... 8 Kazumasa NOMOTO, Ryuichi UGAJIN, Toshi-kazu SUZUKI, Kenichi TAIRA, and Ichiro HASE . Improvement of Operation Reliability at Room Temperature for a Single Electron Pump ............................................. 16 Kouichirou YAMAMURA and Yoshiyuki SUDA . Single-Electron Circuit Simulation ............................... 21 Shuhei AMAKAWA, Hideaki MAJIMA, Hironobu FUKUI, Minoru FUJISHIMA, and Koichiro HOH . A Stochastic Associative Memory Using Single-Electron Tunneling Devices .......................................................... 30 Makoto SAEN, Takashi MORIE, Makoto NAGATA, and Atsushi IWATA . Photoirradiation Effects in a Single-Electron Tunnel Junction Array ......................................................... 36 Michiharu TABE, Yoichi TERAO, Noboru ASAHI, and Yoshihito AMEMIYA . Single-Electron Majority Logic Circuits .......................... 42 Hiroki IWAMURA, Masamichi AKAZAWA, and Yoshihito AMEMIYA . Single-Electron Logic Systems Based on the Binary Decision Diagram ......................................................... 49 Noboru ASAHI, Masamichi AKAZAWA, and Yoshihito AMEMIYA . Asymmetric Single Electron Turnstile and Its Electronic Circuit Applications ..................................................... 57 Masaharu KIRIHARA and Kenji TANIGUCHI Regular Section =============== PAPERS ====== [Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology] . An IF-Band MMIC Chip Set for High-Speed Wireless Communication Systems .......................................................... 63 Hitoshi HAYASHI and Masahiro MURAGUCHI . An MMIC Variable-Gain Amplifier Using a Cascode-Connected FET with Constant Phase Deviation ......................................... 70 Hitoshi HAYASHI and Masahiro MURAGUCHI LETTER ====== [Electronic Circuits] . Design of a Two-Dimensional Digital Chaos Circuit Realizing a Henon Map ........................................................ 78 Kei EGUCHI, Takahiro INOUE, and Akio TSUNEDA . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J81-C-I, J81-C-II, No.1 in Japanese) 82 . Errata (Vol.E80-C, No.12 1997 INDEX) ............................. 92