Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology was introduced in 1959 with physicist Richard Feynman's popular lecture 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom', where he claimed that it will be technologically feasible to manipulate structures at very small scales, paving the way for ground-breaking applications.

In the past 10-15 years technology has advanced enough to allow the fabrication of structures at the nanometer scale, or in the billionths of a metre. While these new fabrication techniques initially found applications within the semiconductor industry, allowing the development of ever-smaller and ever-faster microchips, these techniques now also made it possible to control light at will. Principal nanofabrication techniques include photolithography, film deposition, etching, molecular self-assembly and electron lithography. Furthermore, nanofabrication can also provide exotic advancements to more well-established regimes such as microwave engineering, antennas, and radio-frequency systems.

At MTI we use nanotechnology techniques to develop novel materials, applications and products. Advances in this field allow us to design metamaterial-based optical and microwave devices that until a few years ago, were considered impossible.