Nanotechnology & materials
William Taylor
Spearheads efforts to commercialize the "plasmatron," a pollution control device that converts diesel fuel to hydrogen, cutting nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 90 percent.
Global
Teri Odom
Patterned silicon to create minuscule "beakers" that hold only zeptoliters.
Global
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
Demonstrated the first-ever two-qubit logic gate in a solid-state device, an advance crucial to building an ultrafast quantum computer.
Global
Leroy Ohlsen
Replaced fuel cells plastic membranes with porous silicon.
Global
Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo
Invented nano transfer printing