Bio-Inspired and Nanoscale Integrated Computing (eBook)

Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, PhD, LLM, is an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles, with more than twenty years of teaching and research experience in the field of computer engineering. Dr. Eshaghian-Wilner is best known for her pioneering contributions to optical computing, heterogeneous computing, and nanocomputing. She is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and is the recipient of several IEEE and NSF awards.

Foreword vii

Preface ix

Contributors xiii

1 An Introduction to Nanocomputing 1
Elaine Ann Ebreo Cara, Stephen Chu, Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, Eric Mlinar, Alireza Nojeh, Fady Rofail, Michael M. Safaee, Shawn Singh, Daniel Wu, and Chun Wing Yip

2 Nanoscale Devices: Applications and Modeling 31
Alireza Nojeh

3 Quantum Computing 67
John H. Reif

4 Computing with Quantum-dot Cellular Automata 111
Konrad Walus and Graham A. Jullien

5 Dielectrophoretic Architectures 155
Alexander D. Wissner-Gross

6 Multilevel and Three-dimensional Nanomagnetic Recording 175
S. Khizroev, R. Chomko, I. Dumer, and D. Litvinov

7 Spin-wave Architectures 203
Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, Alex Khitun, Shiva Navab, and Kang L. Wang

8 Parallel Computing with Spin Waves 225
Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner and Shiva Navab

9 Nanoscale Standard Digital Modules 243
Shiva Navab

10 Fault- and Defect-tolerant Architectures For Nanocomputing 263
Sumit Ahuja, Gaurav Singh, Debayan Bhaduri, and Sandeep Shukla

11 Molecular Computing: Integration of Molecules For Nanocomputing 295
James M. Tour and Lin Zhong

12 Self-assembly of Supramolecular Nanostructures: Ordered Arrays of Metal Ions and CarbonNanotubes 327
Mario Ruben

13 DNA Nanotechnology and Its Biological Applications 349
John H. Reif and Thomas H. LaBean

14 DNA Sequence Matching at Nanoscale Level 377
Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, Ling Lau, Shiva Navab, and David D. Shen

15 Computational Tasks in Medical Nanorobotics 391
Robert A. Freitas, Jr.

16 Heterogeneous Nanostructures for Biomedical Diagnostics 429
Hongyu Yu, Mahsa Rouhanizadeh, Lisong Ai, and Tzung K. Hsiai

17 Biomimetic Cortical Nanocircuits 455
Alice C. Parker, Aaron K. Friesz, and Ko-Chung Tseng

18 Biomedical and Biomedicine Applications of CNTs 483
Tulin Mangir

19 Nanoscale Image Processing 515
Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner and Shiva Navab

20 Concluding Remarks at the Beginning of a New Computing Era 535
Varun Bhojwani, Stephen Chu, Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, Shawn Singh, and Chun Wing Yip

Index 547