John Randall to Receive MNE Fellow Award

Zyvex Labs’ President, John Randall, has been named the recipient of the 2018 MNE Fellow Award. This award recognizes outstanding researchers/engineers who made a significant advance in Micro- and Nanoengineering and related fields covered by the MNE conference.

Randall has been invited to the MNE conference in Copenhagen (www.mne2018.org) on September 24-27, 2018 for a plenary presentation. The presentation will be centered on a Digital Atomic Scale Fabrication Technology (Digital FT) that will exploit many of the Digital IT advantages that have led to Digital IT dominance over Analog IT.  The Digital FT will use the making and breaking of chemical bonds as the binary process, will employ a spatial digital address grid, and will have error detection and correction methods. The goal of Digital FT will be to enable Atomically Precise Manufacturing (APM).  APM can introduce another exponential manufacturing trend that will replace Moore’s Law and can be considered an Inverse Moore’s Law, where instead of improving manufacturing precision and downscaling, APM will attain Atomic Precision (AP) at the nano/micro scale and  maintain AP while scaling up to larger and larger volumes of cost-effectively manufactured AP products. The exponential growth of APM will not only increase the size, but also the range of products for a wide variety of applications.

Prior to the presentation, Randall will be presented with the award by the chairman of the MNE Fellow Award committee and a representative to the institution sponsoring the prize.

The Rules and Eligibility for the award are outlined below:

  • The nominee must have inspired and/or impacted the MNE community significantly.  For example, the nominee’s work might have led to a widely used method or tool in the Micro- and Nanoengineering field.
  • The work recognized by the nomination must be of sufficient interest to be adequate for a plenary presentation.
  • The nominee must have strong research roots in Europe by having done a significant part of the research activities in Europe.
  • The nominee must be able to attend the next MNE conference, and agree to give a plenary talk.

Former MNE Fellows include:

  • Dr. Haroon Ahmed from University of Cambridge (founder of Microengineering conference, which became the Micro & Nanoengineering conference) at MNE 2003, Cambridge
  • Dr. Peter Vettiger from IBM Research – Zurich at MNE 2005, Vienna
  • Dr. Mike Hatzakis from NCSR Demokritos Athens at MNE 2006, Barcelona
  • Dr. Bruno Murari from ST Microelectronics at MNE 2010, Genoa
  • Dr. Luc Van den Hove from IMEC at MNE 2011, Berlin
  • Dr. Hans Löschner from IMS Nanofabrication AG in Austria at MNE 2012, Toulouse
  • Prof. Dieter Kern from University of Tübingen at MNE 2014, Lausanne
  • Dr. Emile van der Drift from TU Delft at MNE 2015, The Hague
  • Prof. Nico de Rooij from EPFL Lausanne and CSEM SA at MNE 2016, Vienna
  • Prof. Andreas Manz from Saarland University of Saarbrücken at MNE 2017, Braga

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