“Going beyond classical computers"
Presented by Morteza Kayyalha
Assistant professor of electrical engineering, runs the Quantum Devices Lab (QDL) at Penn State

February 24, 2024
100 Huck Life Sciences Building (Berg Auditorium)
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Classical computers based on semiconductor technology have revolutionized our daily lives in many aspects: from smartphones and portable laptops to tiny medical sensors and healthcare devices. The main driving force behind what we now know as the semiconductor revolution was the urge to create smaller, faster, and more power devices. From the industry point of view, this urge was summarized in Moore’s law – named after Gordon Earle Moore, one of the co-founders of Intel. Moore’s law states that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles about every two years. However, as we are approaching nanometer-sized devices — devices that are hundred thousand times smaller than a strand of hair — Moore’s law is struggling to keep up. In this talk, Kayyalha will introduce an emerging technology based on quantum mechanics that could go beyond semiconductor-based classical computers. He will discuss why there is a need for such a technology, how this technology works, and how it could impact our daily lives and society as a whole.

More info: https://science.psu.edu/frontiers/morteza-kayyalha-nitin-samarth