Technologies and Areas of Application

Throughout his career at IBM Research and at Columbia University, Shalom Wind has been a world leader at “making things small.” Using a variety of techniques, ranging from nanolithography, innovative pattern transfer methods, thin film deposition and processing, self-assembly and directed self-assembly, he has developed new ways of creating structures with increasingly smaller dimensions – some as small as 2 nm, which is approximately the width of a DNA molecule. He adapted these techniques to a variety of studies, addressing questions in cellular and molecular biophysics, and, conversely, exploiting the unique properties of biomolecules in order to build new types of electronically functional devices. This work, in general, is highly interdisciplinary as well as highly collaborative and can involve partners in several different fields of expertise.