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.
Selected 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
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.”
Selected Publications
Orlov, A.; Imre, A.; Csaba, G.; Ji, L.; Porod, W.; Bernstein, G. H.: Magnetic Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata: Recent Developments and Prospects. Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics 3 (1), 2008, 55-68.
Imre, A.: Majority Logic Gate for Magnetic Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata. Science 311 (5758), 2006, 205-208.
Porod, W.: Nanoelectronic circuit Architectures. Handbook of Nanoscience, 2006.
Porod, W.; Werblin, F.; Chua, L.O.; Roska, T.; Rodriguez-Vazquez, Á.; Roska, B.; Fay, P.; Bernstein, G.H.; Huang, Y.F.; Csurgay, A.I.: Bio-Inspired Nano-Sensor-Enhanced CNN Visual Computer. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1013 (1), 2004, 92-109.
Porod, W.; Csaba, G.; Csurgay, A.I.: The Role of Field Coupling in Nano-Scale Cellular Nonlinear Networks. Int. J. Neur. Syst. 13 (06), 2003, 387-395.
Snider, G. L.; Orlov, A. O.; Amlani, I.; Zuo, X.; Bernstein, G. H.; Lent, C. S.; Merz, J. L.; Porod, W.: Quantum-dot cellular automata: Review and recent experiments (invited). J. Appl. Phys. 85 (8), 1999, 4283.
Porod, Wolfgang; Shao, Zhi-an; Lent, Craig S.: Transmission resonances and zeros in quantum waveguides with resonantly coupled cavities. Appl. Phys. Lett. 61 (11), 1992, 1350.
Michel, A.N.; Farrell, J.A.; Porod, W.: Qualitative analysis of neural networks. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 36 (2), 1989, 229-243.
Porod, W.; Ferry, D. K.: Monte Carlo Study of High-Energy Electrons in Silicon Dioxide. Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 (11), 1985, 1189-1191.
Porod, W.; Grondin, R. O.; Ferry, D. K.; Porod, G.: Dissipation in Computation. Phys. Rev. Lett. 52 (3), 1984, 232-235.
