Yousef Saad Department Of Computer Science And Engineering
Yousef Saad Department Of Computer Science And Engineering
Yousef Saad Department Of Computer Science And Engineering
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Electronic structure<br />
➤ Quantum mechanics: Single biggest scientific achievement<br />
of 20th century. See<br />
Thirty years that shook physics, George Gamov, 1966<br />
➤ “There is plenty of room at the bottom” [Feynman, 1959]<br />
– started the era of nanotechnology [making materials with<br />
specific properties.]<br />
see http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html<br />
➤ Examples of applications: Superhard materials, superconductors,<br />
drug design, efficient photovoltaic cells, ...<br />
➤ All these need as a basic tool: computational methods to<br />
determine electronic structure.<br />
CSE Colloquium 11/09/09 p. 5
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