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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald
Byline: Gregg Fields
Mar. 29--At Florida International University, they're dreaming big by thinking small. Really small.
Monday, the FIU College of Engineering inaugurated the Motorola Nanofabrication Research Facility.
Nanotech, at its simplest, is defined as building devices at the molecular or single-atom level. The basic unit of measurement in this world is the nanometer -- it would take 100,000 of them to equal the diameter of a human hair.
With its new facility, FIU is catapulted into the realm of universities delving into nanotech -- considered by many to be the next wave of technological revolution.
"It could be a device so small that you...
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