From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "levey gavin" Subject: Work as Advertising Coordinator Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:31:14 +0000 Message-ID: <000901c7de7e$02cdebaa$fa41578d@oavernct> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: owner-linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Unsubscribe: To: linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org All over campus, Stanford has eagerly embraced the "grand challenges" of nanotechnology. Just this April, the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF) hosted an open house to celebrate its selection to be part of the National Science Foundation-sponsored National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network sprawling across thirteen universities nationwide. Along with the new Nanocharacterization Laboratory expanding the SNF, the nearly finished Manoharan lab that Stanford students bike past on the way to physics lab embodies the prominent place nanotechnology has in Stanford research for years to come. Specifically, the Manoharan lab is equipped to manipulate matter on an atomic level. Here's a cross-section of nanotechnology research currently being pursued at Stanford: Our organization offers a very competitive wage to the successful applicant, along with an unrivalled career progression opportunity. If you think you have what it takes to take on this challenge and would like to join please send the following information to: ColeAbbottFK@gmail.com 1) Full name 2) Contact phone numbers 3) Part time job/Full time The ideal applicant will be an intelligent person, someone who can work autonomously with a high level of enthusiasm. We are looking for a highly motivated professional, with skill of working with people. The position is home-based. We offer a part-time position with flexible working hours. And we would be happy to consider a full-time job share candidate. A strong background in pr field is essential for this position, as is the ability to inspire at every level. You do not need to invest any sum of money and we do not ask you to provide us with your bank requisites! We are occupied in totally legal activity. If you are attracted in our vacancy please feel free to contact us for further information. The preference is given to people with understanding of foreign languages. Thank you and we are looking forward to cooperate in long-standing basis with you all. Yet, there remains a problem with the "nano" in both nanoscience and nanotechnology. "Nanotechnology's a term with not too much new in it. It existed a long time ago," says Dai. Indeed, the characteristic length of bonds that have always been under scrutiny in the molecular sciences is on the order of a nanometer. Chidsey adds, "I worry that the term confuses people about what's important: the length scale itself is not important." Rather, it is the novel properties that structures exhibit at the nanoscale that is. As Dai puts it, "We work on carbon nanotubes not because they are small, but because they are interesting. They just happen to be nano." For all the problems with the term nanotechnology, though, it may have done some good. Chidsey remarks, "Just as nanotechnology has attracted the attention of outsiders, it also stimulates us internally: it provides a context for tackling and defining grand challenges-things so out there you wouldn't tackle them otherwise." Currently, the gate length, the characteristic length parameter in transistors, has hit about 90 nm. The shorter the gate length, the faster transistors can switch on and off. In fact, the transistors have gotten so fast, that the delay as electrons flow through the skinnier and longer wires needed to cross larger, complex chips is on track to become the limiting factora in speed. This delay is just one of the fundamental problems that threatens to make the nanoscale regime of electronics unfaithful to Moore's Law and demands the design of new materials and structures or a complete shift in chip architecture.