Nanoconductance

Sometimes, being a borderline digital hoarder pays off! In the fifteen years since I opened my Gmail account, I have accumulated tens of gigabytes of messages, photos, files, and other attachments. (Especially earlier on, I lacked the foresight to name my files properly and include relevant keywords, so many documents were effectively unfindable.)

Serendipitously, today, I stumbled upon the pamphlet I made in grade 11 for the international science fair in 2004! After my high school laptop was stolen and my backup drive failed, I thought I had lost all of my work related to the project. But here it is! A four-panel brochure designed in Microsoft Publisher to be printed double-sided on legal paper.

It showcases my first foray into the world of scientific research and communication (and, apparently, my embarrassing, nerdy hobby of creating puzzles). Under the mentorship of professors and staff at McGill’s physics department and my teachers at Regina Assumpta, I studied the quantization of conductance in metal wires. I used the results to explain why Moore’s Law would no longer apply once wires reach several atoms wide.

Funny how all these years later, I’m still interested in the miniaturization of computers!

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