Nanotechnology

Week 9 - Quantum mechanics / quantum computing

This week we'll review the history of 'quantum technology', which in many cases, forms the backbone of modern nanotechnology, and definitely is the foundation for the 'road ahead' in nanotechnology.

• 200 years of quantum technology
  • Electricity and magnetism
  • Telegraph
  • Radio and television
  • X-rays and radionuclides
  • Nuclear fission
  • Semiconductors
  • Quantum tunneling
  • Quantum computing
• Quantum computing
  • Quantum informatics
  • Quantum devices
  • Quantum computing
• Tutorials for this week's material
  • Electricity and Magnetism (Molecular Expressions) - http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/
  • Electricity and Magnetism (physicsweb) - http://physicsweb.org/resources/Education/Lecture_notes/Electromagnetism/
  • History of telephony - http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/cscie129/pages/comm_links.html
  • The World of Nuclear Science - http://library.thinkquest.org/C004606/historycont.shtml
  • History of nuclear energy - http://nova.nuc.umr.edu/nuclear_facts/history/history.html
  • Nuclear power Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power
  • History of Semiconductors - http://www.micron.com/k12/semiconductors/history.html
  • History of Semiconductors - http://www.necel.com/en/cprofile/history/
  • Quantum Information Science - http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2000/nsf00101/nsf00101.htm
  • Quantum computing - http://www.qubit.org/library/introductions.html
  • Tutorials on Quantum computing - http://www.imaph.tu-bs.de/qi/tutorials.html
  • Tutorials on Quantum computing - http://dmoz.org/Computers/Computer_Science/Theoretical/Quantum_Computing/
  • Quantum computation and informatics - http://qubit.damtp.cam.ac.uk/articles/index.php
  • Quantum informatics definitions - http://www.21stcentury.co.uk/directory/directory.asp?ID=Computers/Computer_Science/Theoretical/Quantum_Computing/
  • Quantum computing - http://www.nd.edu/~gsnider/EE698A/Luo_SC_QC.ppt (PPT file)
  • Single electron devices - http://www.nd.edu/~gsnider/EE698A/VJ_Single_Electron_Devices.ppt (PPT file)

Learning outcomes for this week:

1. Describe the 200year history of quantum technology
2. Compare and contrast the science and engineering of quantum technology
3. Describe how the atom remains the central nanostructure for quantum development
4. What is quantum computing and quantum informatics?
5. Describe an EMI diagram (see Angstromology)

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