Fact Sheet
BINNIG AND ROHRER
- external pageGerd Binnig and external pageHeinrich Rohrer, a German and a Swiss physicists, invented a external pageScanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)
- They received the external page1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for this invention
- The STM is an instrument for imaging surfaces at the atomic level (sub-nanometer scale)
- Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer invented the STM in 1981 at IBM Research – Zurich in Rüschlikon
- Heinrich Rohrer graduated from ETH Zurich, where he was a student of external pageWolfgang Pauli and external pagePaul Scherrer
NANOTECHNOLOGY CENTER
- Location: Campus of IBM Research - Zurich in Rüschlikon, Switzerland
- Construction period: March 2009 to spring 2011
- Base area (footprint per level): 1500 m2
- Total floor space: 6500 m2
- Building dimensions: Length = 50 m, width = 30 m
COOPERATION MODEL
- Investment of $90 million (incl. $30 million for equipment, which is shared by IBM and ETH Zurich)
- IBM constructs and owns the building
- ETH Zurich rents lab and office space
- Shared use of the cleanroom for both joint and individual research projects