Co-sponsored by The Nanostructures Lab, The Tiny Tech Club and Techlink. 

NanoTectonics: 

Fabricating Logic and Machines from Nanoparticle Building Blocks

Professor Joe Jacobson

MIT - Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Faculty Member of the Molecular Machines Group

Background Papers for Talk:

"Ridley, B Nivi, JM Jacobson. "All-Inorganic Field Effect Transistors Fabricated by Printing."  Joseph Jacobnson. (1999) Science 286 (5440) 746-749.

"All-additive fabrication of inorganic logic elements by liquid embossing." Colin A. Bulthaup, Eric J. Wilhelm, Brian N. Hubert, Brent A. Ridley, Joseph M. Jacobson. (2001) Applied Physics Letters 79(10): 1525-1527.

          Present means of fabrication, such as the vacuum deposition and photolithographic processes used to fabricate chips, require billions of dollars of infrastructure (fabs) and weeks of fabrication time to fabricate at the 100 nm size scale.  As such they are far from the limits which are in principle possible for achieving the metric of nanoscale fabrication per unit time or per unit cost - a metric we have termed fabricational complexity.  In this talk we present recent approaches towards fabricating both logic and micro-electro-mechanical devices from nanoparticle building blocks including all-inorganic logic elements and MEMS with the goal of more closely approaching those limits.  

Joseph Jacobson is Associate Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory where he is co-PI of the Center for Bits and Atoms and leads the Molecular Machine Group which has pioneered research in logic and machines developed from inorganic and biomolecular building blocks. Jacobson was educated at MIT (Ph.D., Physics) and Stanford (ERATO Post-Doctoral Fellow, Nonlinear Quantum Optics) and is the recipient of a 1999 TR100 Award for Innovation, The 2000 Gutenberg Prize, a 2001 Discover Award and a 2002 Esquire Best and Brightest Award.

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