Abstract
A multi-threshold design can be achieved by employing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with different diameters, as the threshold voltage of the carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNTFET) depends on the diameter of the CNT. In this paper, this feature is exploited to design ternary logic circuits for achieving improved performance. We presented new design for CNTFET-based ternary combinational circuits such as half adder, full adder, half subtractor, full subtractor and comparator using negation of literals technique. Extensive simulation results using Synopsis HSPICE simulator demonstrate that using new technique 5–145 times improvement in power delay product can be achieved with reduced gate count compared to the existing ternary–binary combinational gate design.