Northwestern researchers create state-of-the-art desktop nanofabrication tool   
      
   EVANSTON, Ill. --- A new low-cost, high-resolution tool is primed to   
   revolutionize how nanotechnology is produced from the desktop, according to a   
   new study by Northwestern University researchers.    
      
   Currently, most nanofabrication is done in multibillion-dollar centralized   
   facilities called foundries. This is similar to printing documents in   
   centralized printing shops. Consider, however, how the desktop printer   
   revolutionized the transfer of    
   information by allowing individuals to inexpensively print documents as   
   needed. This paradigm shift is why there has been community-wide ambition in   
   the field of nanoscience to create a desktop nanofabrication tool.    
      
   "With this breakthrough, we can construct very high-quality materials and   
   devices, such as processing semiconductors over large areas, and we can do it   
   with an instrument slightly larger than a printer," said Chad A. Mirkin,   
   senior author of the study    
   and a world-renowned pioneer in the field of nanoscience.    
      
   Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg   
   College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of medicine, chemical and   
   biological engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science and   
   engineering. He also is the director    
   of Northwestern's International Institute for Nanotechnology.   
      
   http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/nu-dpa071713.php   
      
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