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A systematic approach to exploitation of Nanotechnology
A white paper by Qtech Nanosystems
What is Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the new buzzword in the tech community and likely to become a household name in the near future. A very general definition of the technology is “the science and technology of small things, typically a few nanometers in length scale” 1. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. Introductions to the topic typically try to make the nanometer more tangible by comparing it to the width of a human hair. However a 1:100,000 relationship (which happens to be the ratio of 1 nanometer to width of a human hair) still remains quite intangible to conceive to most of us. To get a real perspective on the numbers, consider an atom of hydrogen, the smallest atom known. If 10 hydrogen atoms were placed next to each other the total length of the line thus generated would be ONE nanometer. A human blood cell is about a thousand nanometers. The excitement about nanotechnology is sometimes due to the possibility of miniaturization. A recent television commercial by a big multinational company reinforces that impression by talking about cell phones of the size of a fingernail. Though, nanotechnology does allow for miniaturization, to think of nanotechnology as a miniaturization technology is to miss the point completely. Nanotechnology, or the technology of small things, offers much larger possibilities beyond miniaturization. For the scientifically oriented, the technology has numerous fundamental differences to the various technologies developed to date: The science behind the technology moves from Newtonian laws of motion to Einsteins’ laws of relativity and quantum physics. The usual forces of gravity, inertia, dynamics and electrostatics on the macro (typically acting over a few microns) no longer govern the design. Hiesenberg’s uncertainty principle, laws of relativity and atomic interaction forces form the basic design rules in this regime. The...