QuantumWise is offering schools and universities the possibility to use its professional atomic-scale modeling software packages Atomistix ToolKit (ATK) and Virtual NanoLab (VNL) in their courses at a significantly reduced license price.
As the awareness and impact of nanotechnology grows in industry, not least for electronics, atomic-scale modeling is rapidly becoming a very important tool. Computer simulations are today used to predict material and device properties, and constitute a valuable complement to experiments, which at the nanoscale become increasingly expensive and cumbersome. Scientists and engineers that early in their education have acquired skills within computational modeling will be very attractive on the job market in the future.
The easy-to-use graphical user interface enables students to focus on the essential tasks of defining the system geometry and analyzing the results, rather than spending time on configuring the software itself or tuning numerical parameters. Since the calculations are based on first-principles, one will be able to go beyond the usual toy models of basic quantum mechanics and study realistic nanoscale systems. In advanced courses the students can even use to software to learn about the principles of density-functional theory.
On the following pages you can get some inspiration on how ATK can be used to teach concepts of
