IBM Almaden Research Center

Main Activity in Nanotechnology

Material Manufacturer

About Company

Magnetic bits and transistor elements are shrinking rapidly. They could reach the atomic scale within the next few decades. But matter on a small scale can have very odd properties. How will engineers and designers exploit a world dominated by quantum effects? At IBM and in our department, we are preparing for the nano-world of tomorrow by learning to analyze and manipulate matter at the atomic scale. In 1989, one of our scientists forever changed the way we think about nano-engineering when he wrote "IBM" by moving individual xenon atoms.