Tiny Technologies Club Club Goals Planned Events and
Tiny Technologies Club • • Club Goals Planned Events and Activities Club Organization Overview of MIT Tiny Tech Research v. 021010 http: //web. mit. edu/tinytech/
Goals • Education -- Advance understanding of emerging micro-through-nanoscale Tiny Technologies • Networking -- To build links between interested science, engineering, and business communities at & beyond the Institute • Entrepreneurship – To accelerate new venture creation & technology commercialization
Events & Activities • Special Events – VCPI Panel – $50 K Teambuilding • Facilities Visits / Lab Tours – Corporate – e. g. Intellisense – MIT / Harvard Labs -- 11/5 Center for Bio. Materials • Educational Overview Talks – Sloan Lunch Talks • Nano. Structures Technology Talks – MIT & Visiting science & engineering faculty
Organization • Event-Focused Teams – E. g. Speaker Series – E. g. Labtours • Champions each spearhead initiatives • A Few Critical Functional Roles – PR & Marketing – Fundraising & Sponsorship
Contacts • Sloan Speakers Series – Luke Burns lburns@mit. edu • Nano. Structures Series – Jose Pacheco jpacheco@mit. edu • Labtours – Tienko Rasker tienkor@mit. edu • Tiny. Tech Ventures & Cross-Campus Connections – Joost Bonsen jpbonsen@mit. edu • Fundraising – Ellen Brockley brockley@mit. edu
Tiny Technologies @ MIT • • • The Speculative Possibilities Labs & Researchers at MIT The Money Business Implications Further Sources
Tiny = ? • Micro through Nano in size / length scale • MEMS, NEMS, PEMS, Molectronics, Spintronics, Photonics, optoelectronics… • Nano + tubes, wires, crystals, balls, logic, rods, gears, engines… • Molecular Engineering, Biological Engineering… http: //cjmems. seas. ucla. edu/ http: //www. foresight. org/
Feynman’s Vision There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom! http: //www. zyvex. com/nanotech/feynman. html Dec 1959 Talk at APS / Cal. Tech http: //www. photosynthesis. com/RICHARD_F. html
Drexler’s Engine’s of Creation http: //www. foresight. org/EOC/ 1985 Book while at MIT Dismissed often as “Pure SF”
Drawing Inspiration & More from Biology • Ribosomes • Flagellar Motors • Muscles • … http: //www. rcsb. org/pdb/molecules/pdb 10_1. html http: //www. rae. org/revev 6. html http: //www. kapili. com/f/art/filament 1. gif http: //www 2. physics. ox. ac. uk/biophysics/Intro. html http: //www. ai. mit. edu/people/tk/ce/flagella-s. gif http: //gened. emc. maricopa. edu/bio 181/BIOBK/Bio. Book. Animal. TS. html
Dimensions in Silicon and in Biology red blood cell ~5 m (SEM) DNA proteins nm Simple molecules <1 nm diatom 30 m bacteria 1 m 10 -10 10 -9 10 -8 10 -7 10 -6 m 10 -5 10 -4 10 -3 10 -2 SOI transistor width 0. 12 m semiconductor nanocrystal (Cd. Se) Nanometer memory element 5 nm (Lieber) 1012 bits/cm 2 (1 Tbit/cm 2) Source: Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group Circuit design Copper wiring width 0. 2 m IBM Power. PC 750 TM Microprocessor 7. 56 mm× 8. 799 mm 6. 35× 106 transistors
Research @ MIT • Research Centers • Unifying Projects • Faculty & Principal Investigators
Tiny Research Centers • • • MTL MPC CBE SNL CBA ISN …several others
Microsystems Technology Labs http: //www-mtl. mit. edu/mtlhome/ • • MEMS CAD Materials Fabrication Schmidt
Micro. Turbine Project • http: //www. economist. com/
Active Material Structures Lab Source: http: //amsl. mit. edu/ research/projects. gif
Materials Processing Center http: //web. mit. edu/mpc/www/ • Advanced materials • Processes • Properties • Fabrication Kimmerling
Center for Biomedical Engineering http: //web. mit. edu/cbe/www/ • Molecular Engineering • Cell & Tissue Engineering • Physiological Systems Engineering Grodzinsky
Space Nanotechnology Lab http: //snl. mit. edu/ • Space Imaging • High. Performance Schattenburg
http: //cba. mit. edu/ from atomic nuclei to global networks Nanofab, Biofab, Macrofab Gershenfeld http: //cba. mit. edu/docs/01. 04. cbaproposal. pdf
What Might the Future Soldier Wear? Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology • Protective Suits • Human Augmentation http: //web. mit. edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/isn. html http: //www. defenselink. mil/news/Jun 2001/200105153 a. jpg Thomas “It looks a lot like Science Fiction!” http: //www. horizoncomics. com/radix/ -- MIT Student & Comic Book Fan
Tiny Faculty (a Sampling) • • Slocum Hunter Subresh Ortiz Jacobson Manalis Ippen • • • Smith Knight Sasisekharan Endy Hammond Lauffenberger …many more
Precision Engineering http: //pergatory. mit. edu/ Flextesters Slocum Group http: //www-me. mit. edu/people/personal/slocum. htm
Bioinstrumentation / Nanorobotics Hunter Group http: //biorobotics. mit. edu/
Cellular Solids Research Gibson Group http: //web. mit. edu/dmse/csg/Research. htm
Nano. Mechanical Testing http: //web. mit. edu/nanolab/ Subresh Group http: //web. mit. edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/nanolab. html
Nanomechanics Ortiz Group http: //web. mit. edu/cortiz/www/
Molecular Machinery RF Biology Jacobson Group Printed Electronics http: //www. media. mit. edu/molecular/
Nanoscale Sensing / Silicon Biology Manalis Group http: //www. media. mit. edu/nanoscale/
Molecular Self-Assembly http: //web. mit. edu/edgerton/felice/ Zhang Group http: //web. mit. edu/lms/www/index. shtml
Functional Glycomics Sasisekharan Group http: //functionalglycomics. mit. edu/cgi-bin/functional_glycomics/homepage. cgi http: //web. mit. edu/tox/sasisekharan/
Lithographed Nanostructures Smith Group http: //nanoweb. mit. edu/ http: //rleweb. mit. edu/rlestaff/p-hsmith. htm
Femtosecond Optics “pulses … sufficiently short duration to capture the motion of particles in the atomic and subatomic regime” http: //rleweb. mit. edu/Publications/webfeatures/Ippen_Killian. htm Ippen Group http: //rleweb. mit. edu/Publications/currents/cur 11 -2/11 -2 optics. htm http: //web. mit. edu/mphotonics/www/index. shtml
Microbial Engineering / Cellular Robotics / Synthetic Biology Knight Group http: //www. ai. mit. edu/people/tk/ce/microbial-engineering. html
Systems Biology Endy Lab http: //web. mit. edu/biology/www/facultyareas/facresearch/endy. shtml
Macro. Molecular Synthesis Hammond Group http: //web. mit. edu/hammond/lab/index. html
Biological Engineering / Bioengineering Lauffenberger http: //web. mit. edu/beh/whatisbeh. htm
Tiny. Tech, Big Bills • Billions in research – NNI $600 M in 2002, vs $420 M in 2001 • http: //www. infocastinc. com/Nanotech/home. htm • http: //nano. gov/2003 budget. html • Millions in VC – Polaris, DFJ – Corporate Venturing • Still early days
Tiny Business Implications • Profitable Product Lines in MEMS • Startups in Nano
Successful MEMS Products • TI’s Digital Mirror Device • ADI’s Accelerometer
TI’s Digital Mirror Device http: //www. vxm. com/TI 4. jpg
ADI’s Crash Bag Accelerometer http: //www. citizen. org/fireweb/airbag. jpg http: //www. sandia. gov/mems/micromachine/analog_snl. html
Selected MEMS Startups • • Iridigm Micro. CHIPS E-Ink Flexics Memgen Plastilogic Rolltronics
Selected Nano Startups • • • Omni. Guide Surface. Logix Nanosys Engene. OS Calmec Molecular Electronics Zyvex Nanopto Nanotechtonics
Big Business Investments • • Xerox – e. g. Eink competitor IBM – deep investments Big Pharma Medical Devices – e. g. J&J + Medtronics • HP spinoff Agilent – Nano Lab. Chip – Plus recent Molecular Electronics work…
Dangers of Over-Hype • Like AI in 80’s • Some things are fundamentally hard • Progress is rather bursty
MIT Sources MIT’s David Ward has a Nanotech pointer site, very good: http: //web. mit. edu/dwward/www/nanotechnology. htm The MIT Alum Association open. DOOR February edition was on Tiny Technologies, very nice, very comprehensive: http: //alumweb. mit. edu/opendoor/200202/ MIT’s Technology Review does a stellar job of covering ever smaller-scale Engineering: http: //www. techreview. com/articles/nannan. asp
Commercial Sources • Nanotech Planet – http: //www. nanotech-planet. com/ • Zyvex has a comprehensive Nano site – http: //www. zyvex. com/nano/ • ACRS Nano. Tech – http: //cr. org/
Other Sources • Foresight Institute – http: //www. foresight. org/ • Nanotech Opportunity Report – http: //www. foresight. org/Nano. Rev/NOR. html • Sandia’s MEMS movies! – http: //www. sandia. gov/mems/micromachine/movie s. html • Nano. SIG. org …and many more. See Google!
Contacts • Sloan Speakers Series – Luke Burns lburns@mit. edu • Nano. Structures Series – Jose Pacheco jpacheco@mit. edu • Labtours – Tienko Rasker tienkor@mit. edu • Tiny. Tech Ventures & Cross-Campus Connections – Joost Bonsen jpbonsen@mit. edu • Fundraising – Ellen Brockley brockley@mit. edu http: //web. mit. edu/tinytech/
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