Shrinky Dinks close the gap for nanowires

7/8/2014

Assistant Professor SungWoo NamHow do you put a puzzle together when the pieces are too tiny to pick up? Shrink the distance between them.

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Assistant Professor SungWoo Nam
Assistant Professor SungWoo Nam
Assistant Professor SungWoo Nam
How do you put a puzzle together when the pieces are too tiny to pick up? Shrink the distance between them.

MechSE assistant professor SungWoo Nam is leading a team of engineers in using Shrinky Dinks, plastic that shrinks under high heat, to close the gap between nanowires in an array to make them useful for high-performance electronics applications. The group published its technique in the journal Nano Letters.

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This story was published July 8, 2014.