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Nanotechnology & materials

Jamie Link

Etched optical bar codes into micrometer-size pieces of silicon. She hopes to use the technology to detect pollutants in water or cancerous cells within the body.
Year Honored
2004
Organization
Doctoral student, University of California, San Diego
Region
Global

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Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Demonstrated the first-ever two-qubit logic gate in a solid-state device, an advance crucial to building an ultrafast quantum computer.

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Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo

Invented nano transfer printing

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William Taylor

Spearheads efforts to commercialize the "plasmatron," a pollution control device that converts diesel fuel to hydrogen, cutting nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 90 percent.

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Michael Strano

Arrived at a new understanding of carbon nanotube surface chemistry.
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