THE POTENTIAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY

Description

Smaller is not smallest. The nanotechnology has the advantage of making the components smaller, durable and tougher. It means that this nanotechnology has a possibility of making a water proof, dust proof, antiseptic, moisture proof and shock proof laptop for the children in order to longer the life time of the every single laptop.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology

Enabler

• Research and Development: Physicists.
• Things getting smaller and smaller.
• Moore law.
• Power Electronics Circuit.
• Demand if Longer life time.
• Mechanical Engineer and designer.

Inhibitor

• Nanotechnology is not yet mature.
• High cost investment.
• Changing the behavior of the original materials.
• Energy problem.
• Heating Problem.

Paradigm

• The laptop becomes more dust proof, antiseptic, moisture proof and shock proof. It means that the usage of the environment conditions become broader.
• The differences of the laptop and micro-computer become more difficult to define.

Expert

TU-Delft-
Professor Herre Van der Zant
Molecular Electronics and Devices
Phone: (+31)(0)15 2787733
Telefax: (+31)(0)15 2781413

Timing

• 1980: Two major developmentsof birth of cluster science and the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM).

• 1986: The discovery of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes a few years later. In another development, the synthesis and properties of semiconductor nanocrystals were studied. This led to a fast increasing number of semiconductor nanoparticles of quantum dots.

Web Resource

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nanotechnology