Nanocomputers

ABSTRACT

→ DEFINITION :

The computer has already gone through a dynamic

revolution. Thirty years ago, computers were the size of a room and incredibly
slow. Few people probably would have imagined supercomputers that can do over a
trillion calculations per second. Today, the average person's desktop computer is more
powerful than the fastest computers were 30 years ago. The only way this can continue is
if a new type of computer is developed. This computer is known as a nano computer.

→ NANOTECHNOLOGY :

Nanotechnology is an exciting emerging science and

technological field that is making a splash in 2002. Nanotechnology involves
man’s ability to create and manipulate molecules structures to create potentially
new materials, devices, machines or objects. A nanometre is a billionth of a metre,
that is, about 1/80,000 of the diameter of a human hair, or 10 times the diameter
of a hydrogen atom. . If you blew up a baseball to the size of the earth, the atoms
of the baseball would be about the size of grapes. If you could take a ruler and
measure 10 atoms side by side, you would have a nanometer. The World is on the
brink of a technological revolution beyond any human experience. It has the
potential to bring wealth, health and education to every person on the planet. And
it will be able to do this without consuming natural resources or spewing pollution
into the environment. Nanotechnology is about building things atom by atom,
molecule by molecule.
The goal of nanotechnology is to build tiny devices called nanomachines. To build
things on such a small scale, you have to be able to manipulate atoms
individually.
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C. U. Shah College of Engg. & Tech.

 Nanocomputers

The challenge of nanotechnology is to place atoms precisely where you wish on a

structure.
Scientists can now construct natural proteins and even synthesize new ones with
novel properties never seen in nature. With enough understanding, we may be able to turn
proteins into microscopic tools to do the jobs we want.
In the future, Nanotechnology will let us take off the boxing gloves. We'll be
able to snap together the fundamental building blocks of nature easily, inexpensively and
in most of the ways permitted by the laws of physics.

→ Types of Nanocomputers :

1. Nano electronic computers

2. Nano mechanical computers
3. Nano chemical and biochemical computers
4. Nano Quantum computers

→ DRAWBACKS :

Proponents predict that nanotechnology will ignite the industrial revolution of the
21st century, the effects of which will have a greater impact on the world’s population
than antibiotics, integrated circuits, and human-made polymers combined. Now that
scientists have the tools and are developing the skills to manipulate nature’s building
blocks, nanotech enthusiasts tout some mind-bending scenarios.

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C. U. Shah College of Engg. & Tech.