Nanoscale Manufacturing

Turning the promise of nanoscience into new technologies is one of the biggest challenges that face the research community today. The bottleneck is the lack of technologies for manufacturing nanostructures and nanomaterials in large quantity and at low cost. Research in nano-manufacturing is focused on developing optical based, low cost, massively parallel manufacturing techniques. Specifically, a type of nanostructure, called nanoscale optical antenna is developed to concentrate energy of light into a nanoscale domain, and is being used for nanomanufacturing purpose. This program involves researches in several disciplines, including manufacturing science and engineering, control, radiation, optics, and mechanics. It is currently supported by NSF, ONR, and NASA.