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Atomic and Nano Technology
Chip Evolution: IBM Scientists Develop Breakthrough Transistor Technology with Carbon Nanotubes
- Yorktown Heights, N.Y., April 27, 2001 ... IBM scientists developed a breakthrough transistor technology that could preview how computer chips can be made smaller and faster than what is currently possible with silicon.
Mott transition FETs
- We propose and analyze the properties of transistors
based on Mott metal-insulator transition. Such devices should
scale to ultra small sizes.
- Contact: Dennis Newns,
dmnewns@watson.ibm.com
Conductance in atomic wires (old page)
- The conduction properties of wires consisting of just a
few atoms is studied theoretically using density-functional
methods.
- Contact: Norton Lang, lang@watson.ibm.com
Proximal Probe Nanofabrication
- Anodic oxidation of metals and semiconductors with a
conducting AFM tip is used to fabricate nanometer scale
structures.
- Contact: Phaedon Avouris,
avouris@watson.ibm.com
Single electron logic
- Techniques for fabricating SET devices in silicon and
normal metals, which meet the stringent requirements of size and
uniformity for SET logic, are being explored.
- Contact: Richard Rouse, richr@watson.ibm.com
Kinetics of small structures
- Mesoscopic transport, particularly noise; traversal time
in tunneling; fundamental physical limits of computation;
assessment of logic technology proposals.
- Contact:
Rolf Landauer, landaue@watson.ibm.com
Synthesis of metal and semiconductor nanocrystals
- Chemical synthesis and "self assembly" techniques are
used to prepare monodispersed samples of metal and semiconductor
nanoparticles.
- Contact: Christopher B. Murray,
cbmurray@watson.ibm.com
Self-assembly of epitaxial nanostructures
- Theoretical studies suggest how to grow uniform arrays
of quantum dots or quantum wires.
- Contact: Jerry
Tersoff, tersoff@watson.ibm.com
Engineering with individual molecules at room temperature
- In this project, the tip of an STM is used as a
mechanical tool to manipulate and assemble individual molecules
on a substrate, allowing at the same time visualization and
characterization of the manipulation outcome.
- Contact:
James K. Gimzewski, gim@zurich.ibm.com
Microcontact processing
- In this project, we investigate alternative and
potentially low cost approaches to high resolution patterning
and lithography. One method, akin to offset printing,
replicates patterns with chemicals ("inks") brought into
intimate contact with a substrate by an elastomeric stamp.
- Contact: Bruno Michel, bmi@zurich.ibm.com
Ultrasensitive sensors
- In this area, the deformation of silicon
microcantilevers induced by physical or chemical effects and
processes (like chemical reactions, phase transitions,
magnetism, etc...) is used to detect such effects in extremely
small amounts of material.
- Contact: Christoph Gerber,
ge@zurich.ibm.com/Christophe Rossel, rsl@zurich.ibm.com
Atomic
level microscopy
- In order to make and characterize devices and materials
in the nanometer size range, powerful new fabrication techniques
and analytical methods are being developed.
- Contact:
Martin Hug, hug@zurich.ibm.com
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