One of the hottest and latest research trends in nanotechnology is studies of graphene for a multitude of applications within nanoelectronics and other related areas. Researchers around the world, both in academic and industrial R&D departments, are using QuantumWise software extensively to investigate this material and develop future devices based on various types of graphene structures.

The search for new non-volatile memory technologies is a very intensive research area today. A promising candidate is magnetic RAM (MRAM), and several academic groups and electronics companies are using Atomistix ToolKit (ATK) from QuantumWise for different stages in the analysis of new materials for MRAM structures. ATK is a very popular tool within the entire general area of spintronics, for studies of various novel applications and devices where the information is carried not by the electron charge, but by its spin.

The materials involved in novel semiconductor circuits are becoming more and more complex, which is not least evident in the latest generation of gate stacks involving high-k dielectrics. In addition to the pure material properties, the focus of research is now on modeling advanced junctions and interfaces between different materials. For this, a detailed description on the quantum-mechanical level is required, in order to calculate e.g. the leakage current or Schottky barrier. Moreover, since these interfaces are very thin, even on a nanoscale level, defects play a crucial role. Therefore, an atomistic description is needed to be able to predict how impurities, vacancies, etc influence the properties of the junction. Several academic researchers, including Prof. Nishi's group at Stanford, are using Atomistix ToolKit (ATK) from QuantumWise to model such structures.