Atom Scale Manufacturing: The Path to Ultimate Green Technologies | Robert Wolkow

Atom Scale Manufacturing: The Path to Ultimate Green Technologies | Robert Wolkow | TEDxYYC

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4 жыл бұрын

Manufacturing with atoms has been the siren's call for many researchers who believed it was the key that could unlock enormous new potential in how we build things. We could develop products that are perfectly precise, contain zero waste and that are 1000x more energy efficient. The problem has always been the same: How? Until now. Wolkow has taken a leading role in laying a new, stable foundation for the world to begin building on the tiniest of scales. Robert Wolkow is a Professor in the Department of Physics, iCORE Chair of Nanoscale Information and Communications Technology at the University of Alberta and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is also the Principal Research Officer and Nanoelectronics Program Coordinator at the NRC Nanotechnology Research Centre (NRC-NANO), AITF Industrial Chair in Atom Scale Fabrication and CTO of Quantum Silicon Inc.
An award-winning innovator, Wolkow has had a leading role in discovering, altering and deploying atom scale properties of silicon. His years of fundamental advances have laid a broad foundation for practical applications. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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@dabidoe 4 жыл бұрын

Man this is what you’d call “a warm crowd”

@aquadark2291 4 жыл бұрын

Liked the presentation but whoever was in control of switching cameras didn't always focus on the things they should have.

@handlewithcareooo 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome technology...🤗🤗🤗

@theswagonborn6390 4 жыл бұрын

i hope we can see this implemented. great talk!

@dianaboughner7977 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating and Green technological innovation. You are a gift to this world. Thank you 👍👍😊

@AndrewDBrown2020 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing - I love this stuff.....

@michaelbishton9439 4 жыл бұрын

This is the next leap forward to scaling down computers. I hope they keep doing this

@auri1075 4 жыл бұрын

In the year 3000, humanity has reached another wall to its development, computers so small that they have lost them....

@jimc4607 4 жыл бұрын

Conceptually fantastic! However! MANY hurdles exist(Granted 15 minutes are not nearly enough to describe 30 years of work) Mass production for devices such as this will be DAUNTING. Requiring MANY more breakthroughs in the "Process" of creating the device. As Elon M has said many times - " Creating the machine that builds the machine, is orders of magnitude harder:"

@jimc4607 4 жыл бұрын

*Edit* I want to ensure my comment here is seen in the correct light - as encouragement to engage in STEM!

@shehrajsingh6941 4 жыл бұрын

you are right.........and they probably know that too.....achieving what he achieved was considered to be a hurdle too 30 years ago....technology goes hand in hand

@jameshutchison2184 3 жыл бұрын

They have made the breakthroughs and are working on development of their first commercial device with a major semi conductor company.

@jameshutchison2184 3 жыл бұрын

@@shehrajsingh6941 In 2018 they were the first in the world to have stable self correcting devices at room temperature

@shehrajsingh6941 3 жыл бұрын

@@jameshutchison2184 what I meant was that the technology of the future would actually also advance which would help them achieving the commercial scale production. @J C seem to be assuming that rest of the technologies dont improve in the coming years and only they are working to build their commercial products. thats not how things work. Other technologies of the future would surely help them.

@rickjohns6370 4 жыл бұрын

It's fantastic!

@Zahlenteufel1 4 жыл бұрын

This is amazing! Could it be used to produce large sheets of graphene?

@RAFA-kb2te 4 жыл бұрын

The best described quantum circuitry I've seen. I hope many ph.D. Academics had the ability this man has lowering the explanation to quantum level for the public to understand. Congrats for this master class!

@mr.h5436 4 жыл бұрын

I can build with atoms. Audio is beyond me.

@qzh00k 4 жыл бұрын

How about atomic recovery from our waste streams, recycling and recovery. How about that for a novel idea. Maybe we can recycle these new batteries someday.

@dirkwalker9686 4 жыл бұрын

Saving the planet is great and all but this sounds like it could end up with me having a cell phone more powerful than my desktop computer that I only have to charge once a month. The green angle is great but this dude is *really* burying the lead.

@haticebilgic3353 4 жыл бұрын

Müge anlının da gelmesi gerekiyor bence çünkü Türkiye'de parmakla gösterilen sayılan sevilen ve çok başarılı bir kadın mutlaka oda dinlenilmeli !

@versaleyang 4 жыл бұрын

Had to crank up the volume to absurd levels to hear anything at the beginning of the video, otherwise very nice presentation.

@bremensims6086 4 жыл бұрын

Are you deaf?

@versaleyang 4 жыл бұрын

@@bremensims6086 No but compared to most other videos on youtube, this one's normalized at a very low level.

@clawwer4404 4 жыл бұрын

@@versaleyang ty for sharing :=)

@user-xk6ed4zi3t 4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately if money doesn't get pumped into this it's not going to be used.

@NaelyVlogs 4 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

@user-sn4zn1ou6o 4 жыл бұрын

Будьте добры, где перевод?

@Kongolox 4 жыл бұрын

this seems great for multi thread processing. but for single processing it seems a bit slower than traditional transistor..

@jameshutchison2184 3 жыл бұрын

100 x faster

@anna-birdretired8641 4 жыл бұрын

I don't understand how it can be both "very permanent" and editable at the same time. Those seem to be mutually exclusive statements.

@jaysonsk 4 жыл бұрын

I think he is using permanent to mean that it is very unlikely to simply change on its own. like a lego brick. once two are put in place and connected it will not change on its own. but you can still change it if you want

@dirkwalker9686 4 жыл бұрын

It's like how computer harddrives are considered permanent storage. You can store files permanently, but you can also delete / modify them. Its different from memory which loses it's data if you turn off your device.

@HolidiumLabsTHUNDER 4 жыл бұрын

I use a more advanced hologram to green the planet or now even a image via text to stop pollution.

@JacobMerrill 4 жыл бұрын

we need diamond mems array on a chip at 100 ghz doing this with 100,000,000 optical tweezers on a chip

@iluan_ 4 жыл бұрын

Me at 9:57 that looks like an OR gate. 10:29 I knew it.... Wait, an OR gate made of 6 atoms!? I'm a bit rusty in electronics, but I think that one needs two transistors to make an OR gate. This could be huge for digital electronics.

@upgrade1583 4 жыл бұрын

one day they'll invent DNA and realize it was already invented by evolution.

@onlyrick 4 жыл бұрын

@@upgrade1583 - I think Tesla did that!

@s3rg11 4 жыл бұрын

@@upgrade1583 by evolution you mean RANDOM interactions between chemicals? No sir..nothing is random or a coincidence

@upgrade1583 4 жыл бұрын

@@s3rg11 yeah the rules of physics encourage life so I agree it's not random

@nunobartolo2908 4 жыл бұрын

Fotonic computing is easier and photons already take a lot less energy to move than electrons

@DemasiadamenteStudios 4 жыл бұрын

Most videos lately have waaay low volume. Please fix that.

@aylbdrmadison1051 4 жыл бұрын

That's because people are getting sick of the ultra low sound quality that the volume wars have created over the last two decades. So use your volume settings and if you feel the desire to complain, and you should but in the correct direction, then complain about those who upload things with volumes so high they distort the signal chain. (source: I am a recording engineer).

@molnibalage83 4 жыл бұрын

2:05 Is this based on what....? The selling price of the comp indicate its footprint and I use if for looooooooooooong time as well as the guy who will buy after me as a used PC. Single transatlantic flight round trip is close to the price of a med category PC... Many ppl. fly much more than a single flight. The power comp. of a PC is negligible about 20 kWh/month scale. This is energy content of 4 liter of gasoline with 30% efficiency...

@geofflyon8415 4 жыл бұрын

I believe the comment about energy consumption is based on the fact that as of today, the energy consumed by just datacenters (not including the electricity for your phone, PC, tablet, smart TV etc) is now over 3% of the entire planet's energy. That is to say, not the PC's energy but rather the content being streamed or remotely calculated or stored in the "Cloud", has exceeded the energy used by the Airline industry. In fact, recent studies indicate that if current datacenter growth continues, the demand for power will outpace the ability to generate within 20 years. We need this technology, sooner than later!

@sachinchoudhary713 4 жыл бұрын

How do you prevent electrons move by uncontrolled and ubiquitous radio/cosmic waves?

@justindellacanonica1896 4 жыл бұрын

Faraday cage?

@vidalibanezfernandez 4 жыл бұрын

I used the networking, then we ignore the emergency message.

@sahinyasar9119 4 жыл бұрын

Man. im sure its energy effeciency are great but its slower than normal computer isnt it? maybe it will be useful for space probes but not good for regular user

@keshanranasinghe 4 жыл бұрын

Sahin, this isn't even at the prototype stage yet. Think of it as a proof of concept. The potential is enormous

@sahinyasar9119 4 жыл бұрын

@@keshanranasinghe The potential i can think of this is just unlimited data storage without lostiing any data and using any energy for protect data but even so this comcept isnt suitable for future computer because adding more steps make you slow for solving problems well if he made up diffrent coding base rather than binary coding base it had more approvable for complex systems as like encrypting passwords

@dirkwalker9686 4 жыл бұрын

There's nothing about this that would make it slower than a normal computer. The electrons will move at the same speed through these circuits as they do any other. Technically since the circuits are smaller and the electrons have less distance to cover, calculations should run quite a bit faster. Also less power consumed means less heat, means less thermal throttling with is a huge limiting factor on how fast current chips can run.

@keshanranasinghe 4 жыл бұрын

@@sahinyasar9119 please read Dirk's comment for further clarification

@cesarcamacho2266 4 жыл бұрын

Don't know how this could be slower than a regular computer, since you're not running electrons through a crystal lattice structure with interactions of other dopant elements influencing the course of electrons.

@leon-set 4 жыл бұрын

But the question is how do you integrate quantum circuits into conventional systems? Or how do you even store the result of any logic calculation ?🤔 Maybe im missing some basic facts, is there a electron potential near atoms, that could be used to read out the results?

@jameshutchison2184 2 жыл бұрын

The atom scale circuits can be embedded in existing silicon chips

@juvent.h6699 4 жыл бұрын

You are right, this smells distruption

@steveroger8212 4 жыл бұрын

2nd comment

@choiceschoices5910 4 жыл бұрын

OMG HE JUST MADE AN ATOMIC 3D-PRINTER !!!!!

@hamzamabrouk3072 4 жыл бұрын

Shall i type:4th comment?

@auri1075 4 жыл бұрын

yeah... talking about the carbon footprint and the energy computers need but behind the guy there are a thousand balloons... Apart from that, it was good talk.

@yngdave6439 4 жыл бұрын

3rd comment

@Aurelius4114 4 жыл бұрын

Please drink that water 🙀

@v838monocerotis9 4 жыл бұрын

yeah really

@Myelin960 4 жыл бұрын

He sounds sticky inside, coffee mouth I'm assuming *Great talk tho, amazing dude

@AtamMardes 4 жыл бұрын

"The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible." Mark Twain

@cavv0667 4 жыл бұрын

Save our habitat, the Earth! ... asks for bottled water... yeah, life's funny that way.

@Yamcha27 4 жыл бұрын

.8iju

@donaldhobson8873 4 жыл бұрын

In the 1950s, computers ran on vacuum tubes and were really inefficient. Hardly any energy was used on compute. If you make computers that are ten times more efficient, people will use 20X more compute. We need to make computers less efficient. (Or whack a tax on fossil fuel electricity. )