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II: Materials R&D in a Changing World
II: Materials R&D in a Changing World
Pages 25-34
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Among these growing demands are improving public understanding of science, allowing better education of scientists and engineers for today's employment marketplace, and making new contributions to the nation's industrial competitiveness. NOTE: This article was prepared from written material provided to the Solid State Sciences Committee by the speaker.
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The U.S. government supplies the remaining one-third of the funds spent on R&D in the United States (nearly NOTE: This article was prepared from written material provided to the Solid State Sciences Committee by the speaker.
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We will be approaching some fundamental limits in the next 20 years (around the year 20101. For example, silicon device scaling will produce metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors with gate oxide thickness of less than 5 atoms, magnetic data storage spot sizes will approach the paramagnetic limit, and transmission of optical pulses through optical fi 27
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Two examples where physical science and materi als research paid off, causing a factor of two increase in logarithmic slope in the technology "Moore" plots for magnetic data storage and optical networking, respectively, are the invention and development of giant magnetoresistance materials in magnetic read-heads by IBM research and the development of the Er-doped optical amplifier by Bell Laboratories research. There are also many other examples where long-term industrial research has resulted in a paradigm shift in technology and business opportunity for the parent company because it was the first to get products out on the market.
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Industrial part NOTE: This article was prepared from notes fallen by a staff member of the Board on Physics and Astronomy. 29 ners who support research at MIT include Amgen, Ford Motor Company, Merck, and Merrill Lynch.
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for the laboratories' tendency (in view of ever-tightening budgets and decreasing programmatic support in some of their traditional areas) toward "mission creep." Laboratories invent new missions in particular, the formerly popular and politically correct mission of"industrial competitiveness," which many of the DOE laboratories embraced as the Cold War came to an end and as the defense-driven support for R&D began to wane.
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The third example is the SpalIation Neutron Source project. This $1.3 billion facility, to be built at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, involves a collaboration among five DOE laboratories.
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" The Galvin Report suggests that the answer is "no," and the Laboratory Operations Board is trying to figure out ways to approach the answer in the affirmative. Jack Rush raised concerns about the DOE rules that impute increasing liability to the maintenance and operation contractors for the laboratories, implying that these rules inhibit the performance of existing contractors or the participation of new contractors who would do a good job at running the laboratories.
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Venkatesh Narayanamurti pointed out that the NSF is one of the major stakeholders in the field and that although we have come a long way in preparing students to work in interdisciplinary teams, there is still much room for improvement. Cherry Murray pointed out industry's need for highly skilled people and that university training is a key to the success of domestic and global industries.
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He is trying to encourage collaboration at DOE laboratories in areas where it makes sense to do so. He pointed out that the DOE has the PAIR program to encourage these interactions.
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