1. Tiny Technologies Club Club Goals Planned Events and Activities Club Organization Overview of MIT Tiny Tech Research http://web.mit.edu/tinytech/ v.021010

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. Contacts Sloan Speakers Series – Luke Burns lburns@mit.edu lburns@mit.edu NanoStructures Series – Jose Pacheco jpacheco@mit.edu jpacheco@mit.edu Labtours – Tienko Rasker tienkor@mit.edutienkor@mit.edu TinyTech Ventures & Cross-Campus Connections – Joost Bonsen jpbonsen@mit.edu jpbonsen@mit.edu Fundraising – Ellen Brockley brockley@mit.edu brockley@mit.edu

6. Tiny Technologies @ MIT The Speculative Possibilities Labs & Researchers at MIT The Money Business Implications Further Sources

7. 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… http://cjmems.seas.ucla.edu/ http://www.foresight.org/

8. Feynman’s Vision http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html http://www.photosynthesis.com/RICHARD_F.html There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom! Dec 1959 Talk at APS / CalTech

9. Drexler’s Engine’s of Creation http://www.foresight.org/EOC/ 1985 Book while at MIT Dismissed often as “Pure SF”

10. Drawing Inspiration & More from Biology Ribosomes Flagellar Motors Muscles … http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/biophysics/Intro.html http://www.rae.org/revev6.html http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/molecules/pdb10_1.html http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/tk/ce/flagella-s.gif http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookAnimalTS.html http://www.kapili.com/f/art/filament1.gif

11. Simple molecules <1nm IBM PowerPC 750 TM Microprocessor 7.56mm×8.799mm 6.35×10 6 transistors semiconductor nanocrystal (CdSe) 5nm 10 -10 10 -5 10 -9 10 -7 10 -6 10 -8 10 -4 10 -3 10 -2 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) 10 12 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

12. Research @ MIT Research Centers Unifying Projects Faculty & Principal Investigators

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

15. Microsystems Technology Labs http://www-mtl.mit.edu/mtlhome/ Schmidt MEMS CAD Materials Fabrication

16. MicroTurbine Project http://www.economist.com/

17. Active Material Structures Lab Source: http://amsl.mit.edu/ research/projects.gif

18. Materials Processing Center http://web.mit.edu/mpc/www/ Kimmerling Advanced materials Processes Properties Fabrication

19. Center for Biomedical Engineering Grodzinsky http://web.mit.edu/cbe/www/ Molecular Engineering Cell & Tissue Engineering Physiological Systems Engineering

20. Space Nanotechnology Lab http://snl.mit.edu/ Schattenburg Space Imaging High- Performance

21. http://cba.mit.edu/ Gershenfeld http://cba.mit.edu/docs/01.04.cbaproposal.pdf Nanofab, Biofab, Macrofab from atomic nuclei to global networks

22. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology Thomas Protective Suits Human Augmentation http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2001/200105153a.jpg What Might the Future Soldier Wear? http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/isn.html http://www.horizoncomics.com/radix/ “It looks a lot like Science Fiction!” -- MIT Student & Comic Book Fan

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

24. Precision Engineering Slocum Group http://www-me.mit.edu/people/personal/slocum.htm http://pergatory.mit.edu/ Flextesters

25. Bioinstrumentation / Nanorobotics http://biorobotics.mit.edu/ Hunter Group

26. Cellular Solids Research http://web.mit.edu/dmse/csg/Research.htm Gibson Group

27. NanoMechanical Testing http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/nanolab.html Subresh Group http://web.mit.edu/nanolab/

28. Nanomechanics Ortiz Group http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/

29. Molecular Machinery Jacobson Group http://www.media.mit.edu/molecular/ RF Biology Printed Electronics

30. Nanoscale Sensing / Silicon Biology Manalis Group http://www.media.mit.edu/nanoscale/

31. Molecular Self-Assembly http://web.mit.edu/lms/www/index.shtml http://web.mit.edu/edgerton/felice/ Zhang Group

32. Functional Glycomics http://functionalglycomics.mit.edu/cgi-bin/functional_glycomics/homepage.cgi Sasisekharan Group http://web.mit.edu/tox/sasisekharan/

33. Lithographed Nanostructures Smith Group http://rleweb.mit.edu/rlestaff/p-hsmith.htm http://nanoweb.mit.edu/

34. Femtosecond Optics Ippen Group http://web.mit.edu/mphotonics/www/index.shtml “pulses … sufficiently short duration to capture the motion of particles in the atomic and subatomic regime” http://rleweb.mit.edu/Publications/webfeatures/Ippen_Killian.htm http://rleweb.mit.edu/Publications/currents/cur11-2/11-2optics.htm

35. Microbial Engineering / Cellular Robotics / Synthetic Biology Knight Group http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/tk/ce/microbial-engineering.html

36. Systems Biology Endy Lab http://web.mit.edu/biology/www/facultyareas/facresearch/endy.shtml

37. MacroMolecular Synthesis Hammond Group http://web.mit.edu/hammond/lab/index.html

38. Biological Engineering / Bioengineering http://web.mit.edu/beh/whatisbeh.htm Lauffenberger

39. TinyTech, Big Bills Billions in research –NNI $600M in 2002, vs $420M in 2001 http://www.infocastinc.com/Nanotech/home.htm http://nano.gov/ http://nano.gov/2003budget.html Millions in VC –Polaris, DFJ –Corporate Venturing Still early days

40. Tiny Business Implications Profitable Product Lines in MEMS Startups in Nano

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

42. TI’s Digital Mirror Device http://www.vxm.com/TI4.jpg

43. ADI’s Crash Bag Accelerometer http://www.sandia.gov/mems/micromachine/analog_snl.html http://www.citizen.org/fireweb/airbag.jpg

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

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

46. 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…

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

48. MIT Sources MIT’s David Ward has a Nanotech pointer site, very good: http://web.mit.edu/dwward/www/nanotechnology/nanotechnology.htm The MIT Alum Association openDOOR February edition was on Tiny Technologies, very nice, very comprehensive: http://alumweb.mit.edu/opendoor/200202/ MIT’s Technology Review does a stellar job of covering ever smaller-scale Engineering: http://www.techreview.com/articles/nannan.asp

49. Commercial Sources Nanotech Planet –http://www.nanotech-planet.com/http://www.nanotech-planet.com/ Zyvex has a comprehensive Nano site –http://www.zyvex.com/nano/http://www.zyvex.com/nano/ ACRS NanoTech –http://cr.org/http://cr.org/

50. Other Sources Foresight Institute –http://www.foresight.org/http://www.foresight.org/ Nanotech Opportunity Report –http://www.foresight.org/NanoRev/NOR.htmlhttp://www.foresight.org/NanoRev/NOR.html Sandia’s MEMS movies! –http://www.sandia.gov/mems/micromachine/movie s.htmlhttp://www.sandia.gov/mems/micromachine/movie s.html NanoSIG.org …and many more. See Google!

51. Contacts Sloan Speakers Series – Luke Burns lburns@mit.edu lburns@mit.edu NanoStructures Series – Jose Pacheco jpacheco@mit.edu jpacheco@mit.edu Labtours – Tienko Rasker tienkor@mit.edutienkor@mit.edu TinyTech Ventures & Cross-Campus Connections – Joost Bonsen jpbonsen@mit.edu jpbonsen@mit.edu Fundraising – Ellen Brockley brockley@mit.edu brockley@mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/tinytech/