Encyclopedia Nanotech

Interdisciplinary nanotechnology requires thoroughly defined and re-defined terms. This encyclopedia serves the function of defining terms and then expanding upon how these words are used in nanotechnology. Click the word to view its encyclopedia entry. To see more words, click on a letter below to see the words that begin with that letter.

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Quantum Computer
A computer that exploits quantum mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement.

Quantum Dot
An object so small that adding or removing a single electron represents a significant change.

Quantum Interferometric Lithography
A method of lithography that exploits quantum entanglement in order to focus a lithographic beam beyond half of its wavelength.

Quantum Mechanics
A physical model of chemical and optical phenomena, as well as the behaviour of matter in general on a small scale.

Quantum Mirage
A nanoscale property that may allow information to be transfered through use of the wave property of electrons.

Qubit
The quantum computing analog to a bit.