ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTRE. INFORMATICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

2015/2016

INFORMATICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

ASSIGNMENT3 B1B2C1

The article was taken from: https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/nanotechnology/nanomagnets-may-power-the-computers-of-the-future

Task 1. Read the title of the article and answer following questions:

Write down your prediction, what will this article be about?

Look at the picture. Describe what do you see there?

Task 2. Find the following phrases in the article and (1) explain its meanings/ (2) translate into Russian and (3) use these phrases in your own sentences:

Nanomagnets

Transistors

Viable

Nanomagnetic logic

Semiconductors

Radioation-hard

Integration

Arrays

Dipole interactions

Dissipate

Clocking

Nanoparticles

Task 3.

Answer the following questions:

1. What are the nanomagnets used for?

2. What is used in nanomagnetic logic field to compute and transmit data?

3. Does nanomagnetic logic use standard transistors?

4. To what the continued NML research will hopefully lead?

5. How NML- based circuits work?

6. Why silicon –based transistors will need to be replaced in the future?

7. What is a crucial challenge for the nanomagnetic field and why?

8. Give two examples of how the nanomagnetic technology could be used in other technical fields?

Task 4. Read an article and make a plan of it: divide the article in the paragraphs and give the headings to them.

Task 5. Choose and write down/cite two statements/ information from the article that was surprising for you. Explain why were they surprising?

Task6. Choose one part of the article and write down the explanation of its main idea/ give a summary of it in your own words.

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