Nanotechnology involves understanding and manipulating systems less than 100 nanometers, the width of a human hair. It is widely used to create sophisticated sensors for NASA. The document describes an experiment using a sputtering deposition machine to shoot palladium and other elements onto metal surfaces to create nanostructures and nanowires, resulting in some conduction though not enough for NASA applications.

1. Ivan J. Garcia<br />804-10-2844<br />RISE Program<br />Nanotechnology Paragraph<br />Nanotechnology is used to understand and manipulate physical and technological systems that are 100 nanometers or less. Nanotechnology is widely used for making sophisticated sensors and widely used by NASA. One-hundred nanometers is the equivalent to the width of a human hair. A sputtering deposition machine was used to shoot elements like palladium to silver/gold plated metals. This is used to create shapes and nanowires for different conduction methods. Our experiment ended with plausible and noteworthy results, although we did not achieve conduction worthy of NASA chip we achieved some moderate conduction.<br />