Strategic Manufacturing Initiative: Nanotechnology for Advanced Mass Storage

该奖项支持一项制造计划，以协助 发展仪器、方法、计量学和基本的 工程科学必须加速和支持 一个新的高科技产业，纳米技术的增长。 纳米技术是一种尺寸和公差 在0.1-100纳米的范围内（从原子的尺寸到 光的波长）是至关重要的。 这项工作旨在 与其他研究人员合作并补充他们的研究工作 美国的团队和中心在这个重要的领域工作。 在 为了给这项工作提供一个概念性的目标，重点将 试图开发技术， 使用微机械致动器和分子的存储装置 操纵 该设备，概念化，是一个“一次写入， 多读”（WORM）驱动器，类似于光盘技术 这是第一种大容量存储器

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.