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February 9th, 2008
University's nanotech lab a big deal in small matter
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In December, California State University, Northridge, certified its $600,000 nanotechnology lab headed by Caltech physics hotshot Henk Postma.
Its mission: to study transistors the size of a single atom and figure out a way to produce them cheaply.
"The most exciting part is this," said Postma, a 34-year-old native of the Netherlands, opening the door into his "clean room," where students don sterile white suits to work with matter a billionth of a meter thick.
"The idea is, if you want to make things really small, you don't want them to be blocked by hair, skin, dust or dirt."
The basement lab - the most expensive single lab on campus - is actually the second Department of Science and Math nanotech lab.
Twenty years ago, CSUN professor Nick Kioussis started nanotech studies from scratch and went on to secure $10 million in grants for basic and applied research.
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