Tiny Technologies Club Club Goals Planned Events and Activities Club Organization Overview of MIT Tiny Tech Research v

Goals Education -- Advance understanding of emerging micro-through-nanoscale Tiny Technologies Networking -- To build links between interested science, engineering, and business communities at & beyond the Institute Entrepreneurship – To accelerate new venture creation & technology commercialization

Events & Activities Special Events –VCPI Panel –$50K Teambuilding Facilities Visits / Lab Tours –Corporate – e.g. Intellisense –MIT / Harvard Labs -- 11/5 Center for BioMaterials Educational Overview Talks –Sloan Lunch Talks NanoStructures Technology Talks –MIT & Visiting science & engineering faculty

Organization Event-Focused Teams –E.g. Speaker Series –E.g. Labtours Champions each spearhead initiatives A Few Critical Functional Roles –PR & Marketing –Fundraising & Sponsorship

Contacts Sloan Speakers Series – Luke Burns NanoStructures Series – Jose Pacheco Labtours – Tienko Rasker TinyTech Ventures & Cross-Campus Connections – Joost Bonsen Fundraising – Ellen Brockley

Tiny MIT The Speculative Possibilities Labs & Researchers at MIT The Money Business Implications Further Sources

Tiny = ? Micro through Nano in size / length scale MEMS, NEMS, PEMS, Molectronics, Spintronics, Photonics, optoelectronics… Nano + tubes, wires, crystals, balls, logic, rods, gears, engines… Molecular Engineering, Biological Engineering…

Feynman’s Vision There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom! Dec 1959 Talk at APS / CalTech

Drexler’s Engine’s of Creation Book while at MIT Dismissed often as “Pure SF”

Drawing Inspiration & More from Biology Ribosomes Flagellar Motors Muscles …

Simple molecules <1nm IBM PowerPC 750 TM Microprocessor 7.56mm×8.799mm 6.35×10 6 transistors semiconductor nanocrystal (CdSe) 5nm m Circuit design Copper wiring width 0.2  m red blood cell ~5  m (SEM) DNA proteins nm bacteria 1  m Nanometer memory element (Lieber) bits/cm 2 (1Tbit/cm 2 ) Dimensions in Silicon and in Biology SOI transistor width 0.12  m Source: Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group diatom 30  m

MIT Research Centers Unifying Projects Faculty & Principal Investigators

Tiny Research Centers MTL MPC CBE SNL CBA ISN …several others

Microsystems Technology Labs Schmidt MEMS CAD Materials Fabrication

MicroTurbine Project

Active Material Structures Lab Source: research/projects.gif

Materials Processing Center Kimmerling Advanced materials Processes Properties Fabrication

Center for Biomedical Engineering Grodzinsky Molecular Engineering Cell & Tissue Engineering Physiological Systems Engineering

Space Nanotechnology Lab Schattenburg Space Imaging High- Performance

Gershenfeld Nanofab, Biofab, Macrofab from atomic nuclei to global networks

Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology Thomas Protective Suits Human Augmentation What Might the Future Soldier Wear? “It looks a lot like Science Fiction!” -- MIT Student & Comic Book Fan

Tiny Faculty Slocum Hunter Subresh Ortiz Jacobson Manalis Ippen Smith Knight Sasisekharan Endy Hammond Lauffenberger …many more (a Sampling)

Precision Engineering Slocum Group Flextesters

Bioinstrumentation / Nanorobotics Hunter Group

Cellular Solids Research Gibson Group

NanoMechanical Testing Subresh Group

Nanomechanics Ortiz Group

Molecular Machinery Jacobson Group RF Biology Printed Electronics

Nanoscale Sensing / Silicon Biology Manalis Group

Molecular Self-Assembly Zhang Group

Functional Glycomics Sasisekharan Group

Lithographed Nanostructures Smith Group

Femtosecond Optics Ippen Group “pulses … sufficiently short duration to capture the motion of particles in the atomic and subatomic regime”

Microbial Engineering / Cellular Robotics / Synthetic Biology Knight Group

Systems Biology Endy Lab

MacroMolecular Synthesis Hammond Group

Biological Engineering / Bioengineering Lauffenberger

TinyTech, Big Bills Billions in research –NNI $600M in 2002, vs $420M in Millions in VC –Polaris, DFJ –Corporate Venturing Still early days

Tiny Business Implications Profitable Product Lines in MEMS Startups in Nano

Successful MEMS Products TI’s Digital Mirror Device ADI’s Accelerometer

TI’s Digital Mirror Device

ADI’s Crash Bag Accelerometer

Selected MEMS Startups Iridigm MicroCHIPS E-Ink Flexics Memgen Plastilogic Rolltronics

Selected Nano Startups OmniGuide SurfaceLogix Nanosys EngeneOS Calmec Molecular Electronics Zyvex Nanopto Nanotechtonics

Big Business Investments Xerox – e.g. Eink competitor IBM – deep investments Big Pharma Medical Devices – e.g. J&J + Medtronics HP spinoff Agilent – Nano LabChip –Plus recent Molecular Electronics work…

Dangers of Over-Hype Like AI in 80’s Some things are fundamentally hard Progress is rather bursty

MIT Sources MIT’s David Ward has a Nanotech pointer site, very good: The MIT Alum Association openDOOR February edition was on Tiny Technologies, very nice, very comprehensive: MIT’s Technology Review does a stellar job of covering ever smaller-scale Engineering:

Commercial Sources Nanotech Planet – Zyvex has a comprehensive Nano site – ACRS NanoTech –

Other Sources Foresight Institute – Nanotech Opportunity Report – Sandia’s MEMS movies! – s.htmlhttp:// s.html NanoSIG.org …and many more. See Google!

Contacts Sloan Speakers Series – Luke Burns NanoStructures Series – Jose Pacheco Labtours – Tienko Rasker TinyTech Ventures & Cross-Campus Connections – Joost Bonsen Fundraising – Ellen Brockley