COMPUTATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY OF SILICON STRUCTURES: A CHALLENGE FOR BEYOND 2000

Abstract

Devices enormously smaller than before will remodel engineering, chemistry, medicine and computer technology. How can we understand machines that are so small? In general it is expected that computational nanotechnology should give the link between today nanometer scale science and technology and future molecular nanotechnology. I feel that the accurate modelling of nanosystems is one of the big challenges for our times. I discuss briefly some of the subject under investigation in the Technical University of Gdańsk and proposals for future research.