nanoTX USA 08: Accelerating Nanotechnology Commercialization

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nanoTX USA 08Accelerating Nanotechnology
Commercialization

• Who will build it and will they come?
• Who will build it so they can come?
• Build it and they will come
• But by whom and when?

William J. Kroll President, CEO, and Chairman
Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. October 2, 2008
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Outline

• Nanotechnology is new but is following a business
  pattern.
• Limits are being seen in the education skill base
  to support this.
• Technology problems that are being addressed by
  nanotechnology are there.
• Where are the centers for cooperative development
  in this area?
• Here is the model we are using.

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Semiconductor Technology, A Convergence of
Technology and Business Models By Dr. Bernard S.
Meyerson, IBM Fellow, VP Strategic Alliances and
CTO
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Semiconductor Technology, A Convergence of
Technology and Business Models By Dr. Bernard S.
Meyerson, IBM Fellow, VP Strategic Alliances and
CTO
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• Nanotechnology
• Evolution
• Revolution
• or just plain good old Business?

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Modern evolutionary theory teaches us

• Evolution proceeds via both small large
  innovations (mutations).
• Over long periods of time, there are vastly more
  small innovations than large ones.
• Over long periods of time, the distribution of
  innovation "size" conforms to a power-law
  distribution.
• Over short periods of time, evolution may be seen
  to be either gradual (dominated by many small
  innovations) or revolutionary (dominated by major
  innovations).
• Major innovations tend to spur bursts of minor
  innovations.
• Over time, the accumulation of a large number of
  minor innovations lays the foundation for later
  major innovations.

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Phrases sound familiar?

• It has been used for
• Automobiles
• Cell phones
• Rational databases
• Open intelligent networks
• Light bulbs
• and Nanotechnology

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Perception versus Reality

• Nano applications been in use for a long time
• Old Paintings
• Stained glass windows
• London Fog
• Commercial applications in coatings, inkjets, and
  electronics started over 40 years ago
• It is already impacting the way we live

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So Why the Hype?

• Risk, Benefit Analysis
• Replaces dot com as the new business venture
• I need to improve my golf game or tennis score
• This generation is getting older
• Need the drugs
• Lighter tools, phones, furniture
• Applications, benefits, and economics impact are
  becoming evident

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Roadblocks to Nanotechnology

• Ultimately, nanotechnology is still suffering
  with the so-called
• roadblocks to the market. The primary challenge
  nowadays
• is to recognize commercial applications of
  research and to fill
• in the vocabulary gap of nanotechnology
  ignorance.
• Therefore, future roadblocks to successful
  application of may be
• Recognizing commercial application of research
• Implementation of high volume manufacturing of
  nanotechnology
• High costs of nano materials
• Lack of interaction between science and market
• Lack of qualified professional staff for
  research at universities
• Handling, transportation of nanotechnology
  material
• Availability of instrumentation
• What is further interesting to note, is the
  opposition nanotechnology
• has received from traditional media outlets that
  talk about the
• potential negative consequences of nanotechnology
  such as
• Crichtons Prey.

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SIA Workforce Strategy Overview, David R. Ferrell
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Nanotechnology its not just for breakfast
anymore! What are we missing?
SIA Workforce Strategy Overview, David R. Ferrell
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If you can solve the education problem, you
dont have to do anything else. If you dont
solve it, nothing else is going to matter all
that much. - Alan Greenspan, former
Federal Reserve Board chairman
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If you can solve the education problem, you
dont have to do anything else. If you dont
solve it, nothing else is going to matter all
that much. - Alan Greenspan, former
Federal Reserve Board chairman
CRS Report for Congress, Foreign Science
Engineering Presence in U.S. Institutions and the
Labor Force (7/23/08)
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Why things dont scale (Myerson IBM)

• Moores Law requires smaller transistors to be
  made,
• where each dimension of that transistor is
  reduced
• generation after generation
• Some layers in transistors are now only 5-6 atoms
  thick, and can no longer be correctly scaled
• The failure of proper scaling results in
  transistors producing far more heat than can be
  tolerated
• New materials and processes must thus be invented
  at each new technology node to enable continued
  progress in semiconductor technology

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Semiconductor Technology, A Convergence of
Technology and Business Models By Dr.
Bernard S. Meyerson, IBM Fellow, VP
Strategic Alliances and CTO
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Next Generation Switch
Semiconductor Technology, A Convergence of
Technology and Business Models By Dr. Bernard S.
Meyerson, IBM Fellow, VP Strategic Alliances and
CTO
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Semiconductor Technology, A Convergence of
Technology and Business Models By Dr. Bernard S.
Meyerson, IBM Fellow, VP Strategic Alliances and
CTO
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From IBM/NEC release IBM's other joint dev.
partners include Chartered, Freescale,Infineon,
Samsung,STMicroelectronics Toshiba
9/10/08 IBM NEC announced joint Development
at Albany NanoTech
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Drivers

• Perhaps we should view Moores Law as innovation
  driver for
• Directed assembly, which may enable extensibility
  of affordable CMOS fabrication to 10 nm
• Enhanced patterning functions, beyond masking,
  such as 3D nanofabrication and deterministic
  placement of electronically useful nanostructures
• Materials-by-design, including engineered
  interfaces and the heterogeneous materials
  integration on CMOS
• Predictive nanomaterials models, which
  concurrently optimize nanomaterial performance
  and ESH impact

We need materials options that circumvent Moores
Law
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Nanopillars
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NSF NNI Long-term View for Nanotechnology RD
(Mike Roco, NSF-NNI)

• From "From Vision to Reality The NNI at Five
  Years
• by Mihail " Mike" Roco (2006)
• http//www.nanohub.org/resources/1230/
• Today, nanotechnology is expanding at the global
  level and on an
• accelerating path
• from passive nanostructured components to active
  nanosystems
• from scientific discovery to technological
  innovation
• in areas such advanced materials, electronics,
  and pharmaceutical
• to new areas of relevance such as biomedical,
  energy, environment,
• agriculture food systems, and controlled
  molecular architectures
• for manufacturing
• For this reason, it is essential to
• have a robust RD program
• select most suitable investments
• anticipate possible scenarios
• address societal aspects from the beginning of
  large RD investments.

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Nanophotonic

• YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY - 17 Mar 2008
• IBM (NYSE IBM) scientists today took another
  significant advance towards sending
• information inside a computer chip by using light
  pulses instead of electrons by
• building the worlds tiniest nanophotonic switch
  with a footprint about 100X smaller
• than the cross section of a human hair.
• The switch is an important building block to
  control the flow of information inside future
  chips and can significantly speed up the chip
  performance while using much less energy. 
• Todays announcement is a continuation of a
  series of IBM developments towards an on-chip
  optical network
• In November 2005, IBM scientists demonstrated a
  silicon nanophotonic device that can
  significantly slow down and actively control the
  speed of light.
• In December 2006, an analogous tiny silicon
  device was used to demonstrate buffering of over
  a byte of information encoded in optical pulses a
  requirement for building optical buffers for
  on-chip optical networks.
• In December 2007, IBM scientists announced the
  development of an ultra-compact silicon
  electro-optic modulator, which performs the job
  of converting electrical signals into the light
  pulses, a prerequisite for enabling on-chip
  optical communications.

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Innovation is Evolving

• Seeing a lot of talk but looking for the walk
• It makes business sense
• When your investors ask when are they going to
  see a return in the market place
• The answer should be you already are
• Innovation is a food chain
• Is Innovation on an internal basis creating the
  value?

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