Members of Illinois' Nanomanufacturing Node Develop New Tool for Nanomanufacturing

HPC Wire (Sept. 27) -- As the world around us relies on smaller and smaller technologies, research to determine how to construct these minuscule structures is accelerating in importance. First, micro-manufacturing of various materials became crucial to the development of tiny technologies we know today, but researchers in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) are working to take it a step further, by creating tools to enable nanomanufacturing, or manufacturing at the nanoscale, one billion times less than standard.