Anasys
Instruments is pleased to announce that Dr William P King has been appointed as
the Bliss Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. In addition to his faculty position at UIUC, Dr. King serves
as a key scientific advisor to Anasys Instruments.
"Bill has accomplished a tremendous amount so early in his career," said Craig
Prater, CTO of Anasys. "He has been a real pioneer in a nanoscale thermal
processing and nanoscale thermal metrology. For his contributions and
leadership, Bill has already been recognized by many academic and professional societies
as well as multiple arms of the defense research community. We congratulate him
on his latest well-deserved recognition."
As a Willett Faculty Scholar and professor in the Department of Mechanical
Science and Engineering, Professor King's research group works on nanoscale
thermal and mechanical measurements, engineering of nanomechanical devices, and
manufacturing, metrology, and energy transport at small scales. His group is
particularly focused on nanoengineering for macroscopic systems.
One of the tools in Professor King's laboratory is a heatable silicon probe tip
that is about 10 nm in size and is featured in Anasys' range of
instrumentation, notably the NanoTA2
TM and nanoIR
TM systems. This tip is the
world's smallest heat source allowing local modification and patterning of
nanometer-scale features directly onto a variety of surfaces. Because the
probes can be heated and cooled more rapidly than traditional furnaces, they
can produce nanostructures hundreds of times faster than traditional processing
techniques. In a completely different application, the heated probes can be
used to measure the transition temperature of materials with sub-100 nm
resolution. This is a major improvement over previous commercially available
tools that could only achieve resolution near 10 micrometers. The hundredfold
resolution improvement makes this technique useful to researchers who are
developing a range of new materials from pharmaceuticals to polymer composites.
For further information about Anasys Instruments visit
www.anasysinstruments.com
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