{"title":"Nanotechnology, quantum information theory and quantum computing","authors":"S. Lyshevski","doi":"10.1109/NANO.2002.1032253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2002.1032253","url":null,"abstract":"Significant progress has been made in various applications of nanotechnology, and much efforts have been concentrated on the theory of nanocomputers. There are the need to examine nanocomputer architectures which include the following major components: the arithmetic-logic unit, the memory unit, the input/output unit, and the control unit. The recent results illustrate that novel logic and memory nanoscale integrated circuits can be fabricated and implemented. This progress is primarily due to the application of nanotechnology. Fundamental and applied results researched in this paper further expand the horizon of nanocomputer theory and nanotechnology practice. It is illustrated that novel nanocomputer architectures and organizations must be discovered and examined to ensure the highest level of efficiency, flexibility and robustness.","PeriodicalId":408575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122766976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Liu, C. C. You, M. Tsai, S.F. Hu, K. Lee, J. Lu
{"title":"Growth of nano-sized copper seed layer on TiN and TaSiN by new non-toxic electroless plating","authors":"R. Liu, C. C. You, M. Tsai, S.F. Hu, K. Lee, J. Lu","doi":"10.1109/NANO.2002.1032113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2002.1032113","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research is to explore the properties of a copper seed layer grown by electroless plating on TiN. We have developed a displacement layer made of amorphous silicon (a-Si) and copper contact displacement process to improve the island structure of copper activated layer which can then be grown directly on the surface of TiN. Furthermore, this research proposes glyoxylic acid as a replacement for formaldehyde, which is commonly used at present as a reductant but regarded as a carcinogen, and is of high volatility. The copper seed layer has been grown by the electroless plating method on an activated surface of TiN, at the set temperature of 60/spl deg/C with the plating bath consisting of the copper source, complexing agent, stabilizer and surfactant. The existence of a copper seed layer provides not only the conduction layer, but also the copper nucleation layer, to help the growth of electroplated copper on the surface of TiN. Moreover, based on the results of the studies can lead us to grow a nano-sized Cu seed layer on the top of a TaSiN layer.","PeriodicalId":408575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125493537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dongmin Wu, N. Fang, Cheng Sun, Xiang Zhang, Willie J Padilla, D. Basov, David R. Smith
{"title":"Fabrication and characterization of THz plasmonic filter","authors":"Dongmin Wu, N. Fang, Cheng Sun, Xiang Zhang, Willie J Padilla, D. Basov, David R. Smith","doi":"10.1109/NANO.2002.1032234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2002.1032234","url":null,"abstract":"Terahertz imaging systems have applications for explosives detection, aircraft guidance and landing in zero-visibility weather condition, as well as terrestrial and astronomical remote sensing. These critical applications need a variety of optical elements in the THz frequency, which has yet to be explored. In this paper, we demonstrate a high pass THz filter which utilizes the lowered plasma frequency of thin metal wire structures. The microstereolithography technique is applied to fabricate the 2D lattice of thin metal cylinders. The reflection property of the filter is characterized by FTIR, and the plasma frequency is determined at 0.7 THz, which agrees with the approximate theory.","PeriodicalId":408575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127539239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brownian motor analysis and its application to nanosystems","authors":"M. Lyshevski","doi":"10.1109/NANO.2002.1032159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2002.1032159","url":null,"abstract":"On the molecular scale biological machines of the size approximately 0.01 /spl mu/m perform transport guaranteeing functionality of living cells. Thermal and quantum fluctuations are the major source of energy for such minuscule machines. They transport biological materials and ions, build proteins, attain motility of the cell, etc. Fluctuation-driven transport, mapped by the Brownian ratchet principle, gives us the understanding of how electrochemical energy is converted into mechanical energy. The importance of Brownian motion is its versatility in explaining a wide range of biological processes that occur at the molecular level. This paper reports model developments, simulation, and analysis of different mechanisms in nanobiomotors. One example is kinesin, a protein molecule that is in motion along microtubules in living cells and transports material. Another example is myosin which is active when a muscle contracts. The force generation is a topic of current research. How do molecular motors behave in a noisy environment? One model suggests that the motors use the random Brownian motion to do work.","PeriodicalId":408575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129971781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application-specific architecture for quantum cellular automata","authors":"F. Ciontu, C. Cucu, B. Courtois","doi":"10.1109/NANO.2002.1032263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2002.1032263","url":null,"abstract":"We show that a direct transposition of a generic IC architecture on a QCA technology is rendered inefficient by characteristics intrinsic to the model. This analysis constitutes the motivation for an application-specific architectural approach based on regular blocks proposed further in the paper. The basic architectural model is specified and a design methodology allowing the mapping of regular problems is described.","PeriodicalId":408575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124628258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narrow-width SOI devices the role of quantum mechanical space-quantization effects on device performance","authors":"S.S. Ahmed, D. Vasileska","doi":"10.1109/NANO.2002.1032238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2002.1032238","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the role of quantum mechanical space-quantization effects on the operation of a narrow-width SOI device structure. The presence of a two-dimensional carrier confinement gives rise to larger average displacement of the carriers from the interface proper and lower sheet electron density in the channel region. This, in turn, results not only in a significant increase in the threshold voltage but also in pronounced channel width dependency of the drain current. In this work, we have used classical 3D Monte Carlo particle-based simulations. Quantum mechanical space-quantization effects have been accounted for via an effective potential scheme that has been quite successful in describing bandgap widening effect and charge set back from the interface.","PeriodicalId":408575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116248224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The nanosystem structures of manufacturing","authors":"Slawomir Nowak","doi":"10.1109/NANO.2002.1032270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2002.1032270","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the idea of informatic systems for logical organization and control of the process of structures creation with the use of nanoassemblers as well as polymorphic systems. Basing on certain assumptions, specific for future nanosystems, we try to define general problems for technical nanosystems of informatics.","PeriodicalId":408575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology","volume":"600 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116303503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transport simulation of a nanoscale silicon rod field-effect transistor","authors":"C. Dwyer, R. Taylor, L. Vicci","doi":"10.1109/NANO.2002.1032275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2002.1032275","url":null,"abstract":"We have simulated the behavior of a rod shaped nanoscale ring-gated field-effect transistor (O-FET) using the PISCES-IIb semiconductor drift-diffusion solver. The results from these simulations are used by a custom SPICE kernel to simulate several simple logic gates. The usefulness of this kind of transistor is examined within the context of a self-assembling fabrication technique that we outline. We also briefly explore a computer architecture we call a \"computational oracle\" for which the O-FET is well suited. Our simulation results, SPICE kernel modifications, and input decks may be found at ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/packages/GRIP/publication-addend a/TSNSRFET.","PeriodicalId":408575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116568995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A universal device model for nanoelectronic circuit simulation","authors":"M. Ziegler, G.S. Rose, M. Stan","doi":"10.1109/NANO.2002.1032130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2002.1032130","url":null,"abstract":"As nanoelectronics approaches the maturity needed for circuit level integration we will need modeling approaches that can capture non-classical behaviors in a compact manner. We propose a universal device model (UDM) that addresses the challenge of correctly balancing accuracy, complexity, and flexibility. The UDM qualitatively represents fundamental classical and quantum phenomena such that nanoelectronic circuit design and simulation become possible. We discuss the motivation behind this modeling approach as well as the underlying details of the model. Furthermore, we present circuit examples of the model in action.","PeriodicalId":408575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124391606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantum Boolean circuit approach for searching an unordered database","authors":"I. Tsai, S. Kuo, David S. L. Wei","doi":"10.1109/NANO.2002.1032254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NANO.2002.1032254","url":null,"abstract":"The discovery of polynomial time prime factorization, secure key distribution, and fast database search algorithm have recently made quantum computing the most rapidly expanding research field. For a quantum algorithm to be useful, it is essential that the algorithm can be implemented using quantum circuits. Nanotechnology, in particular quantum mechanics based devices, can be used to realize such an algorithm. In this paper, we show how quantum Boolean circuits can be used to implement the oracle circuit and the inversion-about-average function in Grover's search algorithm. We also show that a slight modification of the oracle circuit can be used to search multiple targets.","PeriodicalId":408575,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126344974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}