Strategic Manufacturing Initiative: Nanotechnology for Advanced Mass Storage

该奖项支持一项制造业倡议，以协助开发必要的仪器、方法、计量和基础工程科学，以加速和支持新的高科技产业纳米技术的发展。在纳米技术中，0.1-100纳米（从原子的大小到光的波长）的尺寸和公差是至关重要的。这项工作旨在与美国在这一重要领域工作的其他团队和中心的研究工作进行合作和补充。为了提供一个概念性的目标，重点将放在尝试开发使用微机械致动器和分子操作来构建先进的大容量存储设备的技术上。从概念上讲，这种设备是一种“一次写，多次读”（WORM）驱动器，类似于光盘技术，这是第一种被开发出来的大容量存储。

This award supports a manufacturing initiative to assist in developing the instruments, methodology, metrology, and basic engineering science necessary to accelerate and support the growth of a new high-technology industry, nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is the technology where dimensions and tolerances in the range 0.1-100 nanometers (from the size of an atom to the wavelength of light) are crucial. The effort is designed to collaborate with and complement the research efforts of other teams and centers in the U.S. working in this important area. In order to provide a conceptual goal for the effort, the focus will be on attempting to develop the technology to build advanced mass storage devices using micro-mechanical actuators and molecular manipulation. The device, conceptualized, is a "write-once, read-many" (WORM) drive, in analogy to optical disk technology where this was the first type of mass storage developed.