Nanotech measurement prizes are up for grabs

A contest aims to encourage researchers and development engineers to share nanotech electrical measurement techniques that will help the industry at large.

Keithley Instruments has teamed with R and D magazine to create a nanotechnology test and measurement applications contest for researchers and test innovators who are making complex and advanced electrical measurements on nanoscale materials and devices.

The aim of the contest is to encourage researchers and development engineers to share nanotech electrical measurement techniques that will help the industry at large.

The Editors of R and D magazine will judge the contest entries.

Three prizes will be awarded of $2500, $1500 and $1000.

Entries will be accepted from Keithley equipment users worldwide doing research or product development in any of the diverse nanotechnology disciplines (electronics, biotechnology, structural material etc) and involved with electrical measurements on materials and devices (except employees of Keithley and R and D magazine).

Researchers are encouraged to complete and submit a contest entry form describing their application and how they overcame the measurement challenges associated with it.

Entries must be submitted online before 30th June 2006.

As researchers and engineers grapple with the significant challenges of miniaturisation and nanotechnology, electrical measurements play a pivotal role in developing new materials and devices - even those not intended for electronic applications.

This contest encourages the development and propagation of improved measurement techniques to meet these challenges.

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