A UK university spin-out has released a software tool that enables
researchers to use a powerful quantum code for modelling systems
and processes, for applications such as the design of semiconductor
plasma etch conditions.
Computing the behaviour of systems like this involves modelling
electron-molecule collisions, and to do this researchers use a code
called the molecular R-matrix code. The new software from
University College London spin-out Quantemol allows the code to be
used simply by inputting a few easily-determined variables.
The tool, called Quantemol-N, was developed with an £80,000
grant from Nesta, the National Endowment of Science, Technology and
the Arts.
Quantemol said its aim was to enable researchers to "calculate
electron-molecule interactions more efficiently, safely, reliably,
accurately and cost-effectively than experiment and thereby
accelerate benign technological innovation".
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