Plenary Lectures
R. Stanley WILLIAMS
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
Lecture Date: Thursday, 5 July 2007
Lecture Time: 09:15 to 10:00 hrs
"Computing at the Nanoscale will Employ Different Physics and Logic Operations"
As the size scale of electronic device components continues to shrink to the scale of a few nanometers, the fundamental physics governing the properties of the electrons is becoming more quantum mechanical. Thus, present day circuit designs and concepts that implicitly regard electrons as classical objects are becoming less valid. Eventually, the community will need to discover new device and logic concepts that explicitly incorporate quantum mechanics to be able to break through to a new Moore’s Law that will enable the continued increase of computing capacity at fixed cost that we have enjoyed over the past several decades. This talk will describe several new results that have been achieved in the Quantum Science Research group in the past year of our explorations of new device concepts and logic operations.
