Current Fellows
Wolfgang Porod
USA2009
Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellow
Hans Fischer Senior Fellow
Institution
University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
Department
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
Host
Paolo Lugli
Paolo Lugli
Short CV
Wolfgang Porod, a member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1986, holds the Frank M. Freimann Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Diplom (M.S.) in 1979 and doctorate in 1981, both from the University of Graz, Austria. After appointments as a postdoctoral research fellow at Colorado State University and as a senior research analyst at Arizona State University, he joined Notre Dame as an associate professor, until becoming a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering in the summer of 1992, where he now serves as the director of its Center for Nano Science and Technology.
Awards
2005 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2005 Kaneb Teaching Award, College of Engineering
2001 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2000 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching
2005 Kaneb Teaching Award, College of Engineering
2001 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2000 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching
Selected Publications
W. Porod, R. O. Grondin, D. K. Ferry, and G. Porod, “Dissipation in computation,” Physical Review Letters 52 (3), 232 (1984).
W. Porod and D. K. Ferry, “Monte Carlo study of high-energy electrons in Silicon Dioxide,” Physical Review Letters 54 (11), 1189 (1985).
A. N. Michel, J. A. Farrell, and W. Porod, “Qualitative analysis of neural networks,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems CAS-36, 229 - 243 (1989).
W. Porod, Z. Shao, and C. S. Lent, “Transmission Resonances and Zeros in Quantum Waveguides with Resonantly-Coupled Cavities,” Applied Physics Letters 61, 1350-1352 (1992).
G. L. Snider, A. O. Orlov, I. Amlani, X. Zuo, G. H. Bernstein, C. S. Lent, J. L. Merz, and W. Porod, “Quantum-dot cellular automata: Review and recent experiments,” Journal of Applied Physics 85 (8), 4283-4285 (1999).
W. Porod, G. Csaba, and A.I. Csurgay, “The Role of Field Coupling in Nano-Scale Cellular Nonlinear Networks,” Special Issue on Cellular Neural/Nonlinear Networks, International Journal of Neural Systems 13 (6), 387-395 (2003).
W. Porod, F. Werblin, L. O. Chua, T. Roska, Á. Rodriguez-Vazquez, B. Roska, P. Fay, G. H. Bernstein, Y.-F. Huang, and A. I. Csurgay, “Bio-Inspired Nano-Sensor-Enhanced CNN Visual Computer,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1013, 92-109 (2004).
A. Imre, G. Csaba, L. Ji, A. Orlov, G. H. Bernstein, and W. Porod, “Majority Logic Gate for Magnetic Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata,” Science, Vol. 311, 205-208, 13 January 2006.
Wolfgang Porod, “Nanoelectronic Circuit Architectures,” in Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology, chapter 5, pp. 5.1 – 5.10, eds. William A. Goddard III et al. (CRC Press, 2006).
A. Orlov, A. Imre, L. Ji, G. Csaba, W. Porod, and G. H. Bernstein, “Magnetic Quantum-dot Cellular Automata: Recent Developments and Prospects,” J. Nanoelec. Optoelec. 3 (1), 55-68 (2008).
W. Porod and D. K. Ferry, “Monte Carlo study of high-energy electrons in Silicon Dioxide,” Physical Review Letters 54 (11), 1189 (1985).
A. N. Michel, J. A. Farrell, and W. Porod, “Qualitative analysis of neural networks,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems CAS-36, 229 - 243 (1989).
W. Porod, Z. Shao, and C. S. Lent, “Transmission Resonances and Zeros in Quantum Waveguides with Resonantly-Coupled Cavities,” Applied Physics Letters 61, 1350-1352 (1992).
G. L. Snider, A. O. Orlov, I. Amlani, X. Zuo, G. H. Bernstein, C. S. Lent, J. L. Merz, and W. Porod, “Quantum-dot cellular automata: Review and recent experiments,” Journal of Applied Physics 85 (8), 4283-4285 (1999).
W. Porod, G. Csaba, and A.I. Csurgay, “The Role of Field Coupling in Nano-Scale Cellular Nonlinear Networks,” Special Issue on Cellular Neural/Nonlinear Networks, International Journal of Neural Systems 13 (6), 387-395 (2003).
W. Porod, F. Werblin, L. O. Chua, T. Roska, Á. Rodriguez-Vazquez, B. Roska, P. Fay, G. H. Bernstein, Y.-F. Huang, and A. I. Csurgay, “Bio-Inspired Nano-Sensor-Enhanced CNN Visual Computer,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1013, 92-109 (2004).
A. Imre, G. Csaba, L. Ji, A. Orlov, G. H. Bernstein, and W. Porod, “Majority Logic Gate for Magnetic Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata,” Science, Vol. 311, 205-208, 13 January 2006.
Wolfgang Porod, “Nanoelectronic Circuit Architectures,” in Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology, chapter 5, pp. 5.1 – 5.10, eds. William A. Goddard III et al. (CRC Press, 2006).
A. Orlov, A. Imre, L. Ji, G. Csaba, W. Porod, and G. H. Bernstein, “Magnetic Quantum-dot Cellular Automata: Recent Developments and Prospects,” J. Nanoelec. Optoelec. 3 (1), 55-68 (2008).
Research Interests
Porod is an expert in the area of nanoelectronics and quantum devices. In his research, he seeks to exploit new physical phenomena at the nanometer scale for novel information processing devices and systems. He is the co-inventor of the Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) concept, which is a new way of representing information by electronic charge configurations at the molecular level. The QCA scheme has received significant attention in the technical community, and is sometimes referred to as “Notre Dame Logic.”
