Big news on teeny particles: The University of Delaware has opened an 8,500-square-foot, $30 million nanofabrication facility, according to a story from the Newark Post.
It has the equipment and infrastructure needed to create tools at a nanometer scale, said Matthew Doty, an associate professor and co-director of the facility. That includes capabilities in deposition, etching, lithography and material modification and characterization.
“If you take the diameter of a human hair and divide it into a thousand pieces, that’s the width of one nanometer,” he told the Post.
Computer engineers have been looking to nanofabrication for high-density microprocessors and memory chips, while medical, military and aerospace researchers have also begun using the technology, the report said.
UD opens fancy nanofab facility
Did you know a nanometer is the width of a thousandth of a strand of human hair?
