IBM’S NEW NANOTECHNOLOGY CENTRE WILL COLLABORATE WITH LITHUANIAN SCIENTISTS
This week IBM and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETH Zurich), a premiere European science and engineering university, hosted more than 600 guests from industry, academia and government, to open the Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center, located on the campus of IBM Research – Zurich (Switzerland). The facility is the centerpiece of a 10-year strategic partnership in nanoscience between IBM and ETH Zurich where scientists will research novel nanoscale structures and devices to advance energy and information technologies.
At IBM’s new state-of-the art nanotechnology centre in Zurich Lithuanian scientists will focus on integrated photonics and novel photonic materials to create faster computers, improved solar technologies, and nanopatterning security tags for advanced anti-forgery technology. IBM will collaborate with scientists from Vilnius University, Kaunas University of Technology and Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology, under a five-year agreement that was signed in September 2010 with the Lithuanian Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Education and Science.Lithuania and IBM will share equal rights to the intellectual property, and R&D commercialization, such as patents, IP licenses, products and prototypes that result from the center's activities.
Also, IBM's centre in Haifa, Israel, will as well partner with Lithuanian scientists on a variety of healthcare projects that will aim to provide a better understanding of how to diagnose, and treat life-threatening diseases, such as cardiovascular disease.
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