The California NanoSystems Institute
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•Physics
The CNSI at UCLA
The CNSI at UCSB
The Charter of the CNSI: Governance
UC Regents
UC President (Oakland)
UCLA Chancellor
UCSB Chancellor
CNSI Board of Directors
3 UC appointees, 3 Corporate Partner
appointees
7 academics & private citizens
Lee Hood, David Baltimore, Ralph Shapiro,
Roy Doumani, Peter Preuss, others
CNSI Director & Co-Director
Chief Operating Officer
Jim Heath (UCLA) Evelyn Hu (UCSB)
Roy Doumani (acting)
CNSI Executive Council
Mike Phelps, Chih-Ming Ho, Emily Carter, Sam Gambhir, Owen Witte,
David Awschalom, Fraser Stoddart
Faculty (building to ~55 (~30 at UCLA)
The Charter of the CNSI: Institute Members
Members are ladder faculty at UCLA or UCSB whose research activities are
consistent with the mission of the CNSI.
The hiring of new Institute Members with CNSI FTE will be proposed by the CNSI
according to its research needs and objectives, after consultation with the
appropriate departments.
All individuals appointed with CNSI FTE will be Members, along with at least
twenty-five current faculty from various departments at both campuses. Institute
Membership may be extended to ladder faculty hired in the future by various
departments.
Responsibilities: Members will share responsibility for … the research
infrastructure of the Institute, faculty and graduate student recruitment, and
interfacing with the industrial partners of CNSI, and teaching Institute courses.
Benefits: Institute Members may occupy space in the Institute building, utilize the
CNSI administrative staff, and pursue IP matters (patents, contracts, etc.) through
the Institute. Institute Members will also have first access to CNSI graduate
students and will be able to utilize the research infrastructure of the Institute,
including technical support staff. Members may have access, … , to CNSI
matching funds to assist in the acquisition of research instrumentation.
Institute Associates
•Institute Associates are individuals whose research goals are related to
the mission of the CNSI, who want access to CNSI infrastructure, and
with whom Institute Members may wish to work.
•The Director or Co-Director and the Institute Executive Committee
must approve CNSI Associates.
•They may be UCLA or UCSB faculty in the ladder series or in other
series, such as In-Residence.
•They may be associated with the Institute through corporate or
academic partnerships. For example, Visiting Institute Scholars will be
considered CNSI Associates.
•Institute Associates may be entitled to temporary space in the Institute.
•Institute Associates will not have CNSI teaching or administrative
responsibilities.
•Institute Associates may have access to the research infrastructure of
the Institute and are encouraged to participate in CNSI colloquia and
short courses.
New Faculty Hires of the CNSI
James K. Gimzewski (Senior Hire) joined CNSI as a Professor in the UCLA Dept. of
Chemistry and Biochemistry in January, 2001 after spending over 15 years at IBM’s
Zurich Research Laboratory. Jim brings tremendous expertise to the CNSI in the areas
of molecular electronics, scanning tunneling microscopy, bio-NEMs devices, and ultrasensitive nano-scale analytical instrumentation. Jim’s scientific contributions have
received international recognition, including the Duddell Medal (2001), Royal
Academy of Engineering (2001), The Discover Award for Emerging Fields, (1997),
and the Feyman Prize (1997).
Shimon Weiss (Senior Hire) joined CNSI as a jointly appointed Professor in the UCLA
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the UCLA medical school’s
Department of Physiology. Shimon spent several years at Lawrence Berkeley Labs
developing a host of bio-labeling and spectroscopic techniques for interrogating the
form and function of biosystems at the single-protein or cellular level. Shimon’s
background in electrical engineering and quantum optics adds to the interesting mix of
cross-disciplinary science in CNSI. Shimon’s contributions have been internationally
recognized through the Michael and Kate Barany 2001 Biophysical Society Award. He
is a founder of Quantum Dot Corporation.
Carlo Montemagno (Senior Hire) Carlo joined CNSI as the Carol and Roy Doumani
Professor in UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and
as the new co-chair of UCLA’s bioengineering program. Carlo spent the last several
years building a world class bio-NEMS and bio-engineering program at Cornell.
Among his several contributions has been the development of bio-molecular motordriven devices on chip-based platforms, and his work has been internationally
recognized in both the popular press and through awards, such as the Discover Award.
George ‘Bud’ Homsy
(Senior Hire) Having
recently joined the Mech.
and Env. Eng Dept from
Stanford. Bud Homsy’s
research interests are in
the important areas that
comprise microfluidics
and interfacial flows.
Martin Moskovits (Senior
Hire) Martin joined the
CNSI as a Professor of
Chemistry at UCSB, and as
Dean of Mathematical and
Physical Sciences, coming
from the Univ. of Toronto.
Martin was an early pioneer
in the field of nano, doing
seminal work on small metal
clusters, as well as on the
controlled growth, physics,
and transport properties of
metallic nanowires
Tony Evans (Senior Hire)
Tony will be joining CNSI
from Princeton where he
was directing Princeton
Materials Institute. Tony’s
research program has
includes the study of
nanocomposite materials,
their macroscopic
structural properties, and
the issues of stability,
fatigue and degradation.
Jing Huang (Junior Hire) joined CNSI in UCLA’s Department of Mol. & Med.
Pharm. after completing a Howard Hughes Postdoc Fellowship in Shreiber’s lab at
Harvard. Her research interests involve the use of whole-genome expression
profiling, chemical genetics, and biochemistry to study Tor signal transduction
networks and the molecular basis of human diseases/conditions involving this
pathway, including cancer, diabetes, neurobiological disorders, and autoimmunity.
Jianghong Rao (Junior Hire) joins as an Asst Prof in UCLA’s Dept of Mol.
and Med. Pharm. after completing a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell
Fellowship in Whitesides’ group at Harvard. Jiang will develop molecular
probes for monitoring biological processes in vivo. For example, he is building
probes that will enable the direct monitoring of neuronal communication in real
time.
Frank Brown (Junior Hire) joins as an Assistant Professor in UCSB’s
Chemistry Department, having served as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UC
San Diego and a Yen Fellow at Chicago. Frank will work on issues related to
cellular functioning: membrane dynamics, cytoskeletal assembly and the
kinetics of enzymatic turnover.
Joan Emma Shea (Junior Hire) recently joined CNSI and the
Chemistry Department at UCSB, having been an Assistant Professor at
the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on developing and
applying techniques of statistical and computational physics to the
study of biological problems.
Intellectual Property
The Institute’s ability to interface with the private sector to create
licensing and royalty agreements in a manner suited to the pace of
discovery and business adaptation is essential to the Institute’s success.
The CNSI will work within UC Intellectual Property (IP) policies .
The Institute may retain outside counsel regarding IP matters.
Proceeding on this basis will, under Regental policy, require the
concurrence of the University’s General Counsel. We anticipate that this
concurrence will be obtained promptly and non-controversially if the
Institute selects highly credentialed counsel known to the General
Counsel. The UCLA Chancellor will seek a delegation of responsibility to
give the Director and Co-Director authority to sign final patent
applications and agreements after all necessary UC approvals have been
received.
Expediting Intellectual Property
Ensuring timeliness in UC’s IP negotiation, approval, etc. procedures is a
component of the CalISI mandate.
Establishing streamlined prototype procedures is our mutual goal.
Accordingly, the UCLA Chancellor will request the UC General Counsel
and the UC Senior Vice President-Business and Finance to designate a
single individual to serve as the sole liaison for coordination of CNSI
Intellectual Property issues and work to establish concrete procedures,
including specific timing, deadlines, and responsibilities to expedite the
legal and business aspects of intellectual property.
Our objective is to complete contracts within a 60-day period by
establishing a timeline that incorporates a 30-day review period with an
additional 30-day period, to be used only as necessary, to resolve issues
that may arise. In the course of this, the UCLA Chancellor will personally
intervene to ensure that the shared objectives of the CNSI, UCLA, UCSB,
and UC are achieved.
Intellectual Property
Four Companies have been started out of the CNSI in the past year
NanoSys (Heath is a founder)
LA Tech Center (Phelps is a founder)
NanoPhotonics (Yablonovitch is a founder)
Santa Barbara Materials, Inc. (Stucky & Chmelka are founders)
+ QDOT (Shimon Weiss); Agensys (Owen Witte); Carbon
Nanotechnologies Inc. (Gimzewski)
The HP/CNSI Connection
>$16M DARPA grants since 1999 (>$8M to HP)
6 joint Patents filed over past 3 years:
• 1 patent filed in January, 2002 (reduced to practice at UCLA & UCSB)
• 1 Patent Cited as one of Five that will
•
transform Business & Technology (MIT Tech. Rev., 2001)
• 1 Patent that generated world-wide press coverage (Jan. 2002)
6 joint papers over past few years:
One represented the fundamental architectural paper of modern
nanoelectronics (Teramac in Science 1998)
One received worldwide press coverage incl. front page NY Times &
represented the birth of modern molecular electronics(Molecular logic,
Science 1999)
The HP/CNSI Connection
>$16M DARPA grants since 1999 (>$8M to HP)
6 joint Patents filed over past 3 years:
• 1 patent filed in January, 2002
• 1 Patent Cited as one of Five that will
•
transform Business & Technology (MIT Tech. Rev., 2001)
• 1 Patent that generated world-wide press coverage (Jan. 2002)
6 joint papers over past few years:
One represented the fundamental architectural paper of modern
nanoelectronics (Teramac in Science 1998)
One received worldwide press coverage incl. front page NY Times &
represented the birth of modern molecular electronics(Molecular logic,
Science 1999)
State-of-the-Art
(Jan 2002)
Now at 2  1011
bits/cm2 !!
0.5 micrometers
The HP/CNSI Connection
This work on how to prepare such ultra-high device
densities
• started with an idea & an experiment from HP
•A refinement of that idea at UCLA
•A demonstration of that new concept by a joint
UCSB/UCLA effort
State-of-the-Art
(Jan 2002)
Now at 2  1011
bits/cm2 !!
0.5 micrometers
Science, December 21, 2001
Looks Unconventional, but operates conventionally
•Very low energy consumption
•Almost all fabrication carried out at room
temperature
Currently working with Steve Edwards
(HP Boise) to explore commercialization
possibilities
From 5 Patents that will Transform Business
and Technology -- MIT Tech Review, 2001
The CNSI as an information resource for the
business of nanotech
NanoTech is where Biotech was in 1981-85
Michael Darby & Lynne Zucker (UCLA Anderson School)
preparing nanotech patents & articles CNSI data base at CNSI.