Nano Technology

When the size of a material is reduced to the nanoscale, its physical and electronic properties are often altered as a result of quantum confinement. Current research in nanotechnology seeks to exploit these quantum confinement effects in order to produce devices and materials with novel properties. Such molecular-scale architectures also allow a tremendous number of devices to be placed in a small area and potentially offer improved performance and significant size reduction for applications such as sensors or electronic memory elements.

Current efforts in this area include collaboration with the University of Arizona in support of a program for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) that will result in the development of sensors for explosive detection.