The California NanoSystems Institute

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The California NanoSystems Institute
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The CNSI at UCLA
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The CNSI at UCSB
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The Charter of the CNSI Governance
UC Regents
UC President (Oakland)
CNSI Board of Directors 3 UC appointees, 3
Corporate Partner appointees 7 academics
private citizens Lee Hood, David Baltimore, Ralph
Shapiro, Roy Doumani, Peter Preuss, others
UCLA Chancellor
UCSB Chancellor
CNSI Director Co-Director Jim Heath (UCLA)
Evelyn Hu (UCSB)
Chief Operating Officer Roy Doumani (acting)
CNSI Executive Council Mike Phelps, Chih-Ming Ho,
Emily Carter, Sam Gambhir, Owen Witte, David
Awschalom, Fraser Stoddart
Faculty (building to 55 (30 at UCLA)
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The Charter of the CNSI Institute Members
Members are ladder faculty at UCLA or UCSB whose
research activities are consistent with the
mission of the CNSI. The hiring of new Institute
Members with CNSI FTE will be proposed by the
CNSI according to its research needs and
objectives, after consultation with the
appropriate departments. All individuals
appointed with CNSI FTE will be Members, along
with at least twenty-five current faculty from
various departments at both campuses. Institute
Membership may be extended to ladder faculty
hired in the future by various departments. Respo
nsibilities Members will share responsibility
for the research infrastructure of the
Institute, faculty and graduate student
recruitment, and interfacing with the industrial
partners of CNSI, and teaching Institute
courses. Benefits Institute Members may occupy
space in the Institute building, utilize the CNSI
administrative staff, and pursue IP matters
(patents, contracts, etc.) through the Institute.
Institute Members will also have first access to
CNSI graduate students and will be able to
utilize the research infrastructure of the
Institute, including technical support staff.
Members may have access, , to CNSI matching
funds to assist in the acquisition of research
instrumentation.
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Institute Associates

• Institute Associates are individuals whose
  research goals are related to the mission of the
  CNSI, who want access to CNSI infrastructure, and
  with whom Institute Members may wish to work.
• The Director or Co-Director and the Institute
  Executive Committee must approve CNSI Associates.
  
• They may be UCLA or UCSB faculty in the ladder
  series or in other series, such as In-Residence.
  
• They may be associated with the Institute through
  corporate or academic partnerships. For example,
  Visiting Institute Scholars will be considered
  CNSI Associates.
• Institute Associates may be entitled to temporary
  space in the Institute.
• Institute Associates will not have CNSI teaching
  or administrative responsibilities.
• Institute Associates may have access to the
  research infrastructure of the Institute and are
  encouraged to participate in CNSI colloquia and
  short courses.

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New Faculty Hires of the CNSI
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James K. Gimzewski (Senior Hire) joined CNSI as a
Professor in the UCLA Dept. of Chemistry and
Biochemistry in January, 2001 after spending over
15 years at IBMs Zurich Research Laboratory.
Jim brings tremendous expertise to the CNSI in
the areas of molecular electronics, scanning
tunneling microscopy, bio-NEMs devices, and
ultra-sensitive nano-scale analytical
instrumentation. Jims scientific contributions
have received international recognition,
including the Duddell Medal (2001), Royal Academy
of Engineering (2001), The Discover Award for
Emerging Fields, (1997), and the Feyman Prize
(1997).
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Shimon Weiss (Senior Hire) joined CNSI as a
jointly appointed Professor in the UCLA
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the
UCLA medical schools Department of Physiology.
Shimon spent several years at Lawrence Berkeley
Labs developing a host of bio-labeling and
spectroscopic techniques for interrogating the
form and function of biosystems at the
single-protein or cellular level. Shimons
background in electrical engineering and quantum
optics adds to the interesting mix of
cross-disciplinary science in CNSI. Shimons
contributions have been internationally
recognized through the Michael and Kate Barany
2001 Biophysical Society Award. He is a founder
of Quantum Dot Corporation.
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Carlo Montemagno (Senior Hire) Carlo joined
CNSI as the Carol and Roy Doumani Professor in
UCLAs Henry Samueli School of Engineering and
Applied Science, and as the new co-chair of
UCLAs bioengineering program. Carlo spent the
last several years building a world class
bio-NEMS and bio-engineering program at Cornell.
Among his several contributions has been the
development of bio-molecular motor-driven devices
on chip-based platforms, and his work has been
internationally recognized in both the popular
press and through awards, such as the Discover
Award.
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Martin Moskovits (Senior Hire) Martin joined the
CNSI as a Professor of Chemistry at UCSB, and as
Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,
coming from the Univ. of Toronto. Martin was
an early pioneer in the field of nano, doing
seminal work on small metal clusters, as well as
on the controlled growth, physics, and transport
properties of metallic nanowires
Tony Evans (Senior Hire) Tony will be joining
CNSI from Princeton where he was directing
Princeton Materials Institute. Tonys research
program has includes the study of nanocomposite
materials, their macroscopic structural
properties, and the issues of stability, fatigue
and degradation.
George Bud Homsy (Senior Hire) Having
recently joined the Mech. and Env. Eng Dept from
Stanford. Bud Homsys research interests are in
the important areas that comprise microfluidics
and interfacial flows.
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Jing Huang (Junior Hire) joined CNSI in UCLAs
Department of Mol. Med. Pharm. after completing
a Howard Hughes Postdoc Fellowship in Shreibers
lab at Harvard. Her research interests involve
the use of whole-genome expression profiling,
chemical genetics, and biochemistry to study Tor
signal transduction networks and the molecular
basis of human diseases/conditions involving this
pathway, including cancer, diabetes,
neurobiological disorders, and autoimmunity.
Jianghong Rao (Junior Hire) joins as an Asst
Prof in UCLAs Dept of Mol. and Med. Pharm. after
completing a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell
Fellowship in Whitesides group at Harvard.
Jiang will develop molecular probes for
monitoring biological processes in vivo. For
example, he is building probes that will enable
the direct monitoring of neuronal communication
in real time.
Frank Brown (Junior Hire) joins as an Assistant
Professor in UCSBs Chemistry Department, having
served as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San
Diego and a Yen Fellow at Chicago. Frank will
work on issues related to cellular functioning
membrane dynamics, cytoskeletal assembly and the
kinetics of enzymatic turnover.
Joan Emma Shea (Junior Hire) recently joined CNSI
and the Chemistry Department at UCSB, having been
an Assistant Professor at the University of
Chicago. Her research focuses on developing and
applying techniques of statistical and
computational physics to the study of biological
problems.
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Intellectual Property
The Institutes ability to interface with the
private sector to create licensing and royalty
agreements in a manner suited to the pace of
discovery and business adaptation is essential to
the Institutes success. The CNSI will work
within UC Intellectual Property (IP) policies
. The Institute may retain outside counsel
regarding IP matters. Proceeding on this basis
will, under Regental policy, require the
concurrence of the Universitys General Counsel.
We anticipate that this concurrence will be
obtained promptly and non-controversially if the
Institute selects highly credentialed counsel
known to the General Counsel. The UCLA Chancellor
will seek a delegation of responsibility to give
the Director and Co-Director authority to sign
final patent applications and agreements after
all necessary UC approvals have been received.
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Expediting Intellectual Property
Ensuring timeliness in UCs IP negotiation,
approval, etc. procedures is a component of the
CalISI mandate. Establishing streamlined
prototype procedures is our mutual goal.
Accordingly, the UCLA Chancellor will request the
UC General Counsel and the UC Senior Vice
President-Business and Finance to designate a
single individual to serve as the sole liaison
for coordination of CNSI Intellectual Property
issues and work to establish concrete procedures,
including specific timing, deadlines, and
responsibilities to expedite the legal and
business aspects of intellectual property. Our
objective is to complete contracts within a
60-day period by establishing a timeline that
incorporates a 30-day review period with an
additional 30-day period, to be used only as
necessary, to resolve issues that may arise. In
the course of this, the UCLA Chancellor will
personally intervene to ensure that the shared
objectives of the CNSI, UCLA, UCSB, and UC are
achieved.
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Intellectual Property
Four Companies have been started out of the CNSI
in the past year NanoSys (Heath is a
founder) LA Tech Center (Phelps is a
founder) NanoPhotonics (Yablonovitch is a
founder) Santa Barbara Materials, Inc. (Stucky
Chmelka are founders) QDOT (Shimon Weiss)
Agensys (Owen Witte) Carbon Nanotechnologies
Inc. (Gimzewski)
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The HP/CNSI Connection

• gt16M DARPA grants since 1999 (gt8M to HP)
• 6 joint Patents filed over past 3 years
• 1 patent filed in January, 2002 (reduced to
  practice at UCLA UCSB)
• 1 Patent Cited as one of Five that will
• transform Business Technology (MIT
  Tech. Rev., 2001)
• 1 Patent that generated world-wide press
  coverage (Jan. 2002)
• 6 joint papers over past few years
• One represented the fundamental architectural
  paper of modern nanoelectronics (Teramac in
  Science 1998)
• One received worldwide press coverage incl.
  front page NY Times represented the birth of
  modern molecular electronics(Molecular logic,
  Science 1999)

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The HP/CNSI Connection

• gt16M DARPA grants since 1999 (gt8M to HP)
• 6 joint Patents filed over past 3 years
• 1 patent filed in January, 2002
• 1 Patent Cited as one of Five that will
• transform Business Technology (MIT
  Tech. Rev., 2001)
• 1 Patent that generated world-wide press
  coverage (Jan. 2002)
• 6 joint papers over past few years
• One represented the fundamental architectural
  paper of modern nanoelectronics (Teramac in
  Science 1998)
• One received worldwide press coverage incl.
  front page NY Times represented the birth of
  modern molecular electronics(Molecular logic,
  Science 1999)

State-of-the-Art (Jan 2002)
Now at 2 ? 1011 bits/cm2 !!
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The HP/CNSI Connection

• This work on how to prepare such ultra-high
  device densities
• started with an idea an experiment from HP
• A refinement of that idea at UCLA
• A demonstration of that new concept by a joint
  UCSB/UCLA effort

State-of-the-Art (Jan 2002)
Now at 2 ? 1011 bits/cm2 !!
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Science, December 21, 2001
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• Looks Unconventional, but operates conventionally
• Very low energy consumption
• Almost all fabrication carried out at room
  temperature

Currently working with Steve Edwards (HP Boise)
to explore commercialization possibilities
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The CNSI as an information resource for the
business of nanotech
NanoTech is where Biotech was in 1981-85
Michael Darby Lynne Zucker (UCLA Anderson
School) preparing nanotech patents articles
CNSI data base at CNSI.
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