The Nano World Flashcards
The prefix “nano” comes from a Greek word meaning?
dwarf
It is the science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale , which is about 1 to 100 nm
Nanotechnology
The Father of Nanotechnology
Richard Feynman
The ideas and concepts behind nanoscience and nanotechnology started with a talk entitled?
“There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”
In 1960, Egyptian engineer _________ and Korean engineer _______ at Bell Labs fabricated the first MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) with a gate oxide thickness of 100 nm, along a gate length of 20 μm.
Mohamed Atalla, Dawon Kahng
In 1974, in his explorations of ultra precision machining, Professor ___________ coined the term nanotechnology.
Norio Taniguchi
In 1980, the emergence of nanotechnology as field is occurred
through convergence of ________’s theoretical and public work.
Kim Eric Drexter
In _______, Drexter co-founded The Foresight Institute to help
increase public awareness and understanding of nanotechnology concepts and implications.
1986
A method of nanoparticle fabrication that involves etching a block of material to the desired shape ( cut objects smaller and smaller until size needed )
Top-down
A method of nanoparticle fabrication that involves building materials atom by atom (like lego) ( add atoms together one by one to attain correct property )
Bottom-up
