[Nanotech lectures] public lecture on nanotech: Aug 30, 7pm

[MIT Nanotechnology Public Lecture Series]

As part of our continuing public lecture
series on nanotechnology, we are pleased
to announce that we will be hosting
Prof. Grant Willson, from U. of Texas at
Austin.

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(http://www.rle.mit.edu/nanolectureseries)

Time: Thursday evening, August 30, at 7 p.m.

Location: MIT's Stata Center (32-123)
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Nanofabrication Technology: A view of the Future

The drive to manufacture smaller and smaller
semiconductor transistors has inspired
amazing improvements in materials science
and technology during the last 3 decades.
Billions of dollars have been spent in efforts
to devise methods and materials that enable
the printing of ever smaller, and cheaper,
transistors. But now the lithographic process
that has been used to generate these
"nano-structures" is becoming too expensive
for semiconductor electronics manufacturing.
Step and Flash Imprint lithography (S-FIL), a
much lower cost, high-resolution patterning
technology is now emerging as a potential
adjunct to photolithography. The S-FIL process
replicates shapes as small as 10 nanometers
(or billionths of a meter). The state of high
resolution imaging processes for production of
devices with nanoscale features will be
presented with emphasis on this new S-FIL
process.

For a brief biography of the speaker, visit his web site at:
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/directory/grant_willson/

We look forward to seeing you all at the event!

Event sponsors:
MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics,
Microsystems Technology Laboratory,
Public Service Center, and
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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