Building Blocks of Creation: The Age of NanoScience and Technology

October 11, 2010

Building Blocks of Creation: The Age of NanoScience and Technology

Hrvoje Petek (left) and Hong Koo Kim, codirectors of Pitt’s Petersen Institute for NanoScience and Engineering, are standing in the nanofabrication area of the lab’s “clean room.” The area houses such advanced nanoscale patterning equipment as electron-beam or ion-beam lithography. The process requires an ultraclean environment with a controlled level of air contamination.

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