Nano Network Will Extend Across the Globe
April 24, 2006
| Contact: | Ed Blaguszewski 413/545-0444 |
BOSTON – The Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (CHM) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will be the hub of an extensive network of partners, collaborating with 19 other organizations across the country and world. CHM’s connections with industry, academia, government and non-profits will stretch from Cambridge to California’s Silicon Valley, from Amherst to Austin, Texas, and from Belgium to Japan.
Industry Partners
Evolved Nanomaterials Sciences of Cambridge, Mass., fabricates nanomaterials and specializes in chiral separations, an integral step in pharmaceutical discovery and purification. The company was formed after many years of research in the Tufts University chemical and biological engineering departments. Contact: Regina Valluzzi, chief scientist, at 617/441-5100, rvalluzzi@ensbio.com.
Forge Partners LLC of Wellesley, Mass., is a technology venture creation and investment management company targeting early stage opportunities in innovative technologies with an emphasis on nanotechnology and life sciences companies. Contact: Mark Lester, managing partner, at 781/335-1937, mark@forgepartnersllc.com.
IBM Corp., an international leader in the development and manufacture of computer systems, software, networking, storage devices and microelectronics, will be an evaluation partner in the nanoelectronics area and a test bed development partner. Contact: Robert Miller, manager, advanced organic materials, IBM Almaden Research Center, at 408/927-1646, remiller@almaden.ibm.com.
Lucent Technologies (Bell Laboratories) provides the CHM with nanofabrication services through its New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium facilities in Murray Hill, N.J. Key assets include an end-to-end fabrication facility with equipment valued at more than $400 million, and one of the world’s few e-beam lithography tools dedicated to nanotechnology. Lucent is a leading global research and development company that employs over 7,500 scientists and engineers. Contact: Donald Tennant, 908/582-7667, dmt@lucent.com.
Molecular Imprints Inc. of Austin, Texas, a world leader in imprint lithography, is a global developer and manufacturer of nanolithography systems for manufacturing applications in nano devices, microstructures, advanced packaging, bio devices, optical components and semiconductor devices. Contact: Scott Balaguer, vice president of business development, 512/339-7760, sbalaguer@molecularimprints.com.
Novellus Systems, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., is a leading supplier of chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition, electrochemical deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, ultraviolet thermal processing and surface preparation equipment used in the manufacturing of semiconductors. Novellus will evaluate technologies developed in test bed trials of ultra-low dielectric constant films for semiconductor applications. Contact: John Kelly, 408/943-9700.
SCMaterials Inc. of Camden, Maine, is a start-up venture commercializing metal deposition processes developed at UMass Amherst that use supercritical fluids for ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM) and dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The company is led by Robert Grant who has funded, capitalized and built semiconductor equipment companies, including Primaxx Inc. Contact: Robert Grant, president, 207/230-0957, Robert.grant@scmaterials.com.
Seagate Technologies of Scotts Valley, Calif., the world’s largest manufacturer of disc drives, specializes in hard-drive products including handheld and in-home audio and video, pocket and portable storage and notebook computers. Seagate will collaborate in research of magnetic storage media. Contact: Dieter Weller, head of media research, 510/353-4610, dieter.weller@seagate.com.
TIAX LLC of Cambridge, Mass., is a technology development firm formed from Arthur D. Little’s technology and innovation business, with a staff of 250 scientists, engineers and industry experts. TIAX will play a critical role in transforming the innovations that emerge from CHM into market-ready products and technologies. TIAX will assist with the CHM’s system-level nanomanufacturing test beds, lead technology visioning workshops, act as a liaison between academic and industrial stakeholders, and be an advisor in management of the center. Contact: John Collins, president, 617/498-5854, Collins.j@tiaxllc.com.
Academic Partners
Interuniversity MicroElectronics Center is Europe’s leading independent research center in the field of microelectronics and nanotechnology. IMEC scientists will collaborate on developing ultra-low dielectric constant films and will be available for future test beds related to advances in interconnect structures. Contact: Sywert Brongersma, principal scientist, 32 (16) 288-255, sywert.brongersma@imec.be.
Mount Holyoke College will contribute to the CHM’s nanoelectronics research through state-of-the-art thermoreflectance imaging techniques and instrumentation developed for nanoscale device-level characterization. Contact: Janice Hudgings, associate professor of physics, 413/538-2206, jhudging@mtholyoke.edu.
Springfield Technical Community College will help develop and pilot multimedia and videotaped instructional modules on nanotechnology topics for use in engineering technology courses. STCC will also disseminate the materials nationally. Contact: Douglas Buckley, chair of electrical engineering technology, 413/755-4898, dbuckley@stcc.edu.
Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan is a leader in the field of magneto-optical photonic crystals. The collaboration will focus on patterning and developing arrays of optical and magneto-optical elements for photonic device applications, and it will involve an exchange of scientists. Contact: Mitsuteru Inoue, leader of the Laboratory for Advanced Spin Electronics, 81 (532) 47-0120, inoue_mitsuteru@eee.tut.ac.jp.
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras will engage scientists in its Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), directed by Carlos Cabrera, in collaborative work on nanostructured spintronics materials for magneto-electronic devices, and with synthesis of nanocrystalline diamond particles and doped silicon nanoparticles to create effective biomarkers for in-cell applications. UPR students and faculty will actively collaborate with UMass counterparts through research fellowships in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico. Contact: Carlos Cabrera, director, 787/764-0000, ccabrera@cnet.clu.edu.
Additional Partners
ENVIRON International Corp., an international consulting firm with offices in Amherst, Mass., provides management and technical consulting that addresses human health and environmental risk issues related to chemicals in the environment, foods, drugs, medical devices and consumer products. ENVIRON will contribute expertise, organize events and moderate discussions concerning human health and nanomanufactured materials. Contact: Kenneth Mundt, principal, 413/256-3556, kmundt@environcorp.com.
Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council represents more than 300 of the state’s manufacturers, product developers, suppliers, research institutions and academic health centers in the global medical device industry. MassMEDIC will connect potential bionanotechnology users with CHM researchers. Contact: Thomas Sommer, president, 617/414-1340, sommer@massmedic.com.
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC), the state’s development agency for renewable energy and the innovation economy, will assist CHM on two fronts. Through its John Adams Innovation Institute, MTC is providing $2 million in public matching funds to help connect CHM research to Massachusetts companies. MTC will also promote the center through its Massachusetts Nanotechnology Initiative. Contact: Robert Kispert, director of federal and university programs, 508/870-0312, kispert@masstech.org.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a federal agency that works with the private sector, other government agencies and universities to develop and apply the technology, measurements and standards needed for new and improved products and services. NIST’s polymer division will collaborate in the evaluation of ultra low-k dielectric constant thin films and structures produced by nanoimprint lithography. Contact: Eric Lin, group leader for electronic materials, 301/975-6743, eric.lin@nist.gov.
Society of Manufacturing Engineers, an international professional society headquartered in Dearborn, Mich., will extend research in nanomanufacturing and nanoscience to the manufacturing engineering community through selected expositions, technical conferences, short courses, trade magazines, videos/DVDs and membership communications. Contact: Jane Wellington, manager, rapid technologies and additive manufacturing community, 313/425-3228, jwellington@sme.org.
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