• Events Schedule

• January 05 - 09, 2004
  9th Joint MMM-Intermag Conference. Anaheim, Calif.

• January 13 - 14, 2004
  Nano Particles and Nanostructured Materials: Implications for Health. Daresbury Laboratories, Warrington, UK

• January 14 - 16, 2004
  4th WSEAS International Conference on Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology (ICONN 2004), Solid State Electronics and Physics (ICOSOLID 2004), and Optics, Photonics, Lasers and Imaging (ICOPLI 2004). Taiwan

• January 18 - 22, 2004
  31st Conference On The Physics And Chemistry Of Semiconductor Interfaces. Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

• January 20, 2004
  California Nanotechnology 2004. Sacramento, Calif.

• January 20, 2004
  Nanotechnology and IT - A Glimpse of the Future. Royal Society, London

• January 20, 2004
  NanoMicroClub. Royal Society, London

  Other dates and locations for NanoMicroClub events include:

  • Tuesday 20 January: Royal Society, London
  • Thursday 26 February: Edinburgh
  • Thursday 25 March: Newcastle
  • Thursday 29 April: Birmingham
  • Thursday 27 May: Belfast

• January 20 - 22, 2004
  ISCNN'04: International Symposium on the Creation of Novel Nanomaterials. Osaka, Japan

• January 21 - 24, 2004
  Special Symposium of the Thin Film and Surface Physics Division of the Applied Physics Society of Japan. Shizukuishi, Japan

• January 22 - 23, 2004
  abc Technologies 2004 (Accelerated Bio & Chem Technologies). Basel, Switzerland

• January 24 - 29, 2004
  Photonics West 2004. San Jose, Calif.

• January 25 - 29, 2004
  17th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2004). Maastricht, The Netherlands

• January 27 - 28, 2004
  Latest trends in micro- and nanotechnology. Scandinavia Hotel, Copenhagen
  For further details, contact Lone Tranholm Nordby
  Tel: +45 35 25 31 44
  Contact: Lone.nordby@ibceuroforum.dk

• January 28 - 30, 2004
  Nanoparticles and Nanoporous Materials for Environment and Energy Applications. Sydney, Australia

• January 29, 2004
  "Les Micro & Nanotechnologies en 2003: Quelles avancées, Quelles perspectives?" (Micro & Nanotechnologies in 2003: Which projections, Which prospects?) Paris, France

January 9, 2004
Headline: 'It's a Nano World' after all: Exhibit developed by Cornell, Ithaca Sciencenter and Painted Universe opens at Innoventions at Epcot
Source: Cornell News
Description: Allowing everyone to see, from a scientists perspective, what nanotechnology is all about, through exhibits. The article goes on to mention what nanotechnology is and how society will feel the impact that nanotechnology has on our lives. Not to mention the impact it will have on the US infrastructure and on the economy.

January 9, 2004
Headline: NSF creates 13-member National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, forming coast-to-coast, shared open laboratory
Source: Cornell News
Description: The National Science Foundation has awarded to a 13-university consortium the designation as the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network and at least $70 million to share their facilities with qualified users for a five-year period. Sandip Tiwari, director of the Cornell Nanoscale Facility, will lead NNIN. The article also mentions the exhibit, "It's a Nano World," (pictured on the right) as being the first exhibit to highlight nanotechnology. Read more.

January 12, 2004
Headline: Big plans for tiniest technologies.
Source: The Daily Barometer
Description: In Oregon, Sen. Ron Wyden has big plans for resurrecting the Oregon economy - big plans based on the tiniest of technologies. Along with Sen. George Allen of Virginia, Wyden co-sponsored the recently passed 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act, which will provide $3.7 billion for research and education in nanotechnology in 2005.

January 14, 2004
Headline: Siena College to launch first nanotech course.
Source: The Business Review
Description: Siena College will offer its first undergraduate nanotechnology course during the 2004 spring semester, this comes after a $100,000 grant form the National Science Foundation.

January 28, 2004

Headline: Self-Assembly Technique Shines Even If Flash Device Was For Show
Source: Small Times
Description: The article talks about the self-assembly technique used for making the nanocrystals, which could become a cornerstone – and a building block – in Big Blue’s future miniaturized computing components. The article takes both a economical and scientific approach to helping everyone understand what may come next in miniaturization, of course self-assembly is more than just the miniaturization of applications that exist today.

IBM used self assembly to build a nanocrystal FLASH memory device

(a) Step 1: Polymer molecules are made to self assemble into perfect hexagonal arrangements. The sizes of the arrangement are set by the size of the polymer molecules. The dark circular areas are 20 nanometers in diameter and are spaced 40 nanometers apart.

(b) Step 2: IBM used the polymer material as a stencil to reproduce the nanoscale pattern in silicon dioxide, which is more rugged than the polymer and able to withstand higher temperatures. At this stage the polymer material is completely removed.

(c) Step 3: A combination of depositing silicon material and etching leaves silicon nanocrystals embedded within the 20 nanometer regions defined originally by the self assembled polymer.

(d) Dimensions of the hexagonal pattern of the initial polymer (dotted curve) are maintained throughout, as shown by the histogram of the final silicon nanocrystal dimensions (solid curve). The grey curve represents the dimensions of the hexagonal pattern at an intermediate process step.