Patent ID: 7525833

Claim:
A nanoscale shift register comprising: a first set of nanowires interconnected through a first set of latches to a first latch-control signal line; and a second set of nanowires interconnected through a second set of latches to a second latch-control signal line, the nanowires of the first set of nanowires and the nanowires of the second set of nanowires arranged in a sequence that includes a first nanowire, a last nanowire, and a subsequence of internal nanowires between the first nanowire and the last nanowire, each internal nanowire of the second set of nanowires interconnected through a gate of a first set of gates controlled by a first gate signal line to a preceding nanowire of the first set of nanowires and interconnected through a gate of a second set of gates controlled by a second gate signal line to a next nanowire of the first set of nanowires.