Tiny Technologies

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Tiny Technologies
Overview by Joost Bonsen jpbonsen_at_alum.mit.edu

• The Speculative Possibilities
• Work at MIT
• The Money
• Business Implications
• Further Sources

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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/
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Feynmans Vision
Theres Plenty of Room at the Bottom!
http//www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
Dec 1959 Talk at APS / CalTech
http//www.photosynthesis.com/RICHARD_F.html
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Drexlers Engines of Creation

• http//www.foresight.org/EOC/

1985 Book while at MIT Dismissed often as Pure
SF
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Drawing Inspiration More from Biology

• Ribosomes
• Flagellar Motors
• Muscles

http//www.rae.org/revev6.html
http//www.rcsb.org/pdb/molecules/pdb10_1.html
http//www.kapili.com/f/art/filament1.gif
http//www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/biophysics/Intro.html
http//www.ai.mit.edu/people/tk/ce/flagella-s.gif
http//gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/Bio
BookAnimalTS.html
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Dimensions in Silicon and in Biology
red blood cell 5 ?m (SEM)
diatom 30 ?m
DNA proteins nm
Simple molecules lt1nm
bacteria 1 ?m
SOI transistor width 0.12?m
semiconductor nanocrystal (CdSe) 5nm
Circuit design Copper wiring width 0.2?m
Nanometer memory element (Lieber) 1012 bits/cm2
(1Tbit/cm2)
IBM PowerPC 750TM Microprocessor 7.56mm8.799mm 6.
35106 transistors
Source Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group
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Tiny Tech _at_ MIT

• Research Centers
• Unifying Projects
• Faculty Principal Investigators

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Tiny Research Centers

• MTL
• MPC
• CBE
• SNL
• CBA
• ISN
• several others

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Microsystems Technology Labs
http//www-mtl.mit.edu/mtlhome/

• MEMS
• CAD
• Materials
• Fabrication

Schmidt
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MicroTurbine Project

http//www.economist.com/
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Materials Processing Center
http//web.mit.edu/mpc/www/

• Advanced materials
• Processes
• Properties
• Fabrication

Kimmerling
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Center for Biomedical Engineering
http//web.mit.edu/cbe/www/

• Molecular Engineering
• Cell Tissue Engineering
• Physiological Systems Engineering

Grodzinsky
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Space Nanotechnology Lab
http//snl.mit.edu/

• Space Imaging
• High-Performance

Schattenburg
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http//cba.mit.edu/
from atomic nuclei to global networks
Nanofab, Biofab, Macrofab
Gershenfeld
http//cba.mit.edu/docs/01.04.cbaproposal.pdf
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Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology

• Protective Suits
• Human Augmentation

http//web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/isn.html
Thomas
It sounds a lot like Science Fiction! -- MIT
Student Comic Book Fan
http//www.horizoncomics.com/radix/
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Tiny Faculty
(a Sampling)

• Slocum
• Hunter
• Subresh
• Ortiz
• Jacobson
• Manalis
• Ippen

• Smith
• Knight
• Sasisekharan
• Endy
• Hammond
• Lauffenberger
• many more

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Precision Engineering
http//pergatory.mit.edu/
Flextesters
Slocum Group
http//www-me.mit.edu/people/personal/slocum.htm
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Bioinstrumentation / Nanorobotics
Hunter Group
http//biorobotics.mit.edu/
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Cellular Solids Research
Gibson Group
http//web.mit.edu/dmse/csg/Research.htm
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NanoMechanical Testing
http//web.mit.edu/nanolab/
Subresh Group
http//web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/nanolab.html

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Nanomechanics
Ortiz Group
http//web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/
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Molecular Machinery
RF Biology
Jacobson Group
Printed Electronics
http//www.media.mit.edu/molecular/
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Nanoscale Sensing / Silicon Biology
Manalis Group
http//www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/
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Molecular Self-Assembly
http//web.mit.edu/edgerton/felice/
Zhang Group
http//web.mit.edu/lms/www/index.shtml
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Functional Glycomics
Sasisekharan Group
http//functionalglycomics.mit.edu/cgi-bin/functio
nal_glycomics/homepage.cgi
http//web.mit.edu/tox/sasisekharan/
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Lithographed Nanostructures
Smith Group
http//nanoweb.mit.edu/
http//rleweb.mit.edu/rlestaff/p-hsmith.htm
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Femtosecond Optics
pulses sufficiently short duration to capture
the motion of particles in the atomic and
subatomic regime
http//rleweb.mit.edu/Publications/webfeatures/Ipp
en_Killian.htm
Ippen Group
http//rleweb.mit.edu/Publications/currents/cur11-
2/11-2optics.htm
http//web.mit.edu/mphotonics/www/index.shtml
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Microbial Engineering / Cellular Robotics /
Synthetic Biology
Knight Group
http//www.ai.mit.edu/people/tk/ce/microbial-engin
eering.html
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Systems Biology
Endy Lab
http//web.mit.edu/biology/www/facultyareas/facres
earch/endy.shtml
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MacroMolecular Synthesis
Hammond Group
http//web.mit.edu/hammond/lab/index.html
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Biological Engineering / Bioengineering
Lauffenberger
http//web.mit.edu/beh/whatisbeh.htm
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Tiny Money

• Billions in research
• NNI 600M in 2002, vs 420M in 2001
• http//www.infocastinc.com/Nanotech/home.htm
• http//nano.gov/
• http//nano.gov/2003budget.html
• Millions in VC
• Polaris, DFJ
• Corporate Venturing
• Still early days

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Tiny Business Implications

• Profitable Product Lines in MEMS
• Startups in Nano

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Successful MEMS Products

• TIs Digital Mirror Device
• ADIs Accelerometer

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TIs Digital Mirror Device
http//www.vxm.com/TI4.jpg
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ADIs Crash Bag Accelerometer
http//www.citizen.org/fireweb/airbag.jpg
http//www.sandia.gov/mems/micromachine/analog_snl
.html
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Selected MEMS Startups

• Iridigm
• MicroCHIPS
• E-Ink
• Flexics
• Memgen
• Plastilogic
• Rolltronics

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Selected Nano Startups

• OmniGuide
• SurfaceLogix
• Nanosys
• EngeneOS
• Calmec
• Molecular Electronics
• Zyvex
• Nanopto
• Nanotechtonics

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Big Business Investments

• Xerox e.g. Eink competitor
• IBM deep investments
• Big Pharma
• Medical Devices e.g. JJ Medtronics
• HP spinoff Agilent Nano LabChip

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Dangers of Over-Hype

• Like AI in 80s
• Some things are fundamentally hard
• Progress is rather bursty

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MIT Sources
MITs David Ward has a Nanotech pointer site,
very good http//web.mit.edu/dwward/www/nanotechn
ology/nanotechnology.htm The MIT Alum
Association openDOOR February edition was on Tiny
Technologies, very nice, very comprehensive http
//alumweb.mit.edu/opendoor/200202/ MITs
Technology Review does a stellar job of covering
ever smaller-scale Engineering http//www.techrev
iew.com/articles/nannan.asp
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Commercial Sources

• Nanotech Planet
• http//www.nanotech-planet.com/
• Zyvex has a comprehensive Nano site
• http//www.zyvex.com/nano/
• ACRS NanoTech
• http//cr.org/

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Other Sources

• Foresight Institute
• http//www.foresight.org/
• Nanotech Opportunity Report
• http//www.foresight.org/NanoRev/NOR.html
• Sandias MEMS movies!
• http//www.sandia.gov/mems/micromachine/movies.htm
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• NanoSIG.org

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3D thru Cross-Eye
http//www.zyvex.com/nanotech/visuals.html