Robert Wolkow, PhD, FRSC
Contact
Professor/iCORE Chair, Faculty of Science - Physics
- rwolkow@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 641-1725
- Address
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3-182 Centennial Ctr For Interdisciplinary SCS II
11335 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
About
BSc(1982) Waterloo, Canada
PhD(1987) Toronto, Canada
Postdoc(1987) IBM Yorktown Heights NY, USA
Member Technical Staff(1988), AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ, USA
Senior Research Officer(1994) National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
Principal Research Officer(2000) National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
Professor and iCORE Chair of nanoscale Information and Communication Technologies(2003), Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Canada
Principal Research Officer and Molecular Scale Devices Program Leader(2003), National Institute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton, Canada
Scientific Director(2009), Hitachi electron microscopy product development Centre), National Institute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton, Canada
Program Coordinator(2011), Hybrid Nano-Electronic Systems, National Institute for Nanotechnology, 2011
Chief Technical Officer(2011), Quantum Silicon Inc., Edmonton, Canada
Research
Atom scale fabrication, physical principles of ultra low power electronic computation, atom scale chemical physics, highly coherent electron source studies, single atom ion source development, quantum computing
Courses
PHYS 495 - Special Topics in Physics
The course covers specialized topics of interest to advanced undergraduate students. Consult the Department for details about current offerings. Prerequisites depend on the subject. Credit for this course may be obtained more than once.
PHYS 595 - Special Topics in Physics
This course covers specialized topics of interest to junior graduate students. Consult the Department for details about current offerings. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. Credit for this course may be obtained more than once.