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research in verifying predictions of theories, discovering new phenomena,
or creating prototypes for engineering structures, devices, circuits,
and systems requires a complex effort in fabrication of the experimental
apparatus. In the case of experiments at the nanoscale, this fabrication,
which is performed at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility (CNF),
takes advantage of techniques (or fabrication processes as engineers
like to call them due to their background in the semiconductor industry)
from a multitude of disciplines. The structural form of the end result
is applicable to research in electronics, physics, chemistry, biology,
materials science, and
mechanical engineering. This
interdisciplinarity of the research and its techniques are central
to work at the nanoscale.
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 In
the past few years, nanobiotechnology has emerged as an exciting scientific
and technological opportunity to meld nano-microfabrication and biosystems
to the benefit of both. Nanobiotechnology is the genesis of substantial
new insights into the structure and operation of biological systems,
which leads to the design of new classes of micro- and nanofabricated
devices and systems.
Featuring close collaboration among life scientists, physical scientists,
and engineers, the Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC) enters its third
successful year as a National Science Foundation-supported Science
and Technology Center. With Cornell as the lead institution, the center
draws on the talents of biological researchers at the Wadsworth Center
of the New York State Department of Health and academic scientists
from Clark Atlanta, Howard, Princeton, and Oregon Health and Sciences
Universities.
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 The
Alliance for Nanomedical Technologies, established in 2001, brings
together academia and the private sector of New York State to develop
the next generation of medical devices. The New York State Office
of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR), awarded the
Alliance $2.8 million over two years to establish a new Center for
Advanced Technology (CAT). Cornell University, University of Rochester,
the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health, and
Tompkins County Community College, as partners in the Alliance, seek
to exploit the interface between engineering and biology, and to harness
microfabrication techniques in order to build
integrated devices.
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 For
more than a third of a century, some of the most
important technological advances of modern society have originated
from the successful efforts of engineers and
scientists to repeatedly shrink the scale and increase the performance
and capabilities of information technology components and systems.
These continuing advancements in electronics, information storage,
optoelectronics, and photonics have revolutionized technology, creating
whole new industries and affecting major societal change.
The Center for Nanoscale Systems in Information Technology (CNS) was
established at Cornell in 2001 as result of a nationwide competition
held by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address some of the
exciting challenges that clearly are to be found in nanotechnology
research and development. CNS's focus is to develop nanoscale science
and nanoscale technology for application in future high-performance
information technology systems.
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 The
mission of the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR), established
in the early 1960s, is to explore, advance, and exploit the forefront
of the science and engineering of advanced materials. The unifying
theme of the center’s current research is the study of materials
purposefully structured at the nanoscale (near atomic dimensions).
This objective is pursued through experimental and theoretical studies
of the assembly and processing of nanomaterials and their resulting
behavior. CCMR aims to be a world leader in the design, control, and
understanding of the behavior of both crystalline and disordered nanomaterials.
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