Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: IBM and ETH Zurich Open Collaborative Nanotechnology Center

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The FINANCIAL — $90 million center, which features a cleanroom and noise free labs, is based on a unique public private partnership

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ZURICH – 17 May 2011: IBM and ETH Zurich, a premiere European science and engineering university, hosted more than 600 guests from industry, academia and government, to open the Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center located on the campus of IBM Research – Zurich. The facility is the centerpiece of a 10-year strategic partnership in nanoscience between IBM and ETH Zurich where scientists will research novel nanoscale structures and devices to advance energy and information technologies.
The new Center is named for Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, the two IBM scientists and Nobel Laureates who invented the scanning tunneling microscope at the Zurich Research Lab in 1981, thus enabling researchers to see atoms on a surface for the first time. The two scientists attended today’s opening ceremony, at which the new lab was unveiled to the public.
“Our partnership with the IBM research laboratory in Ruschlikon and its close proximity to the ETH Zurich is truly fortunate for us,” said Prof. Ralph Eicher, president, ETH Zurich. “With this new Nanotechnology Center, we bring our unique, long-standing and prolific cooperation to a new level. I am convinced that both scientific partners, as well as the Zurich region and the Swiss industry will benefit from it.”
EMPA, a Swiss national research institution under the umbrella of the ETH domain, also is a partner in the new center.
“This new center represents a milestone in IBM’s centennial year and opens a new chapter in our long-standing tradition of scientific collaboration,” said Dr. John E. Kelly III, senior vice president and director of IBM Research. “IBM scientists will work side-by-side with our partners pursuing research to drive the future of information technology and nanoscience.”