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Elements of a Comprehensive Security Solution.
Maintaining security is a never-ending struggle. Just when you think you have an airtight system in place, a new hacker technology or an especially diabolical adversary enters the picture. And, the threats aren't necessarily external. In fact, the FBI Computer Crime Unit reports that more than 80 percent of all network security breaches are inside jobs-disgruntled or dishonest employees with their own agendas.
Regardless of the type or location of perceived threat, an effective system for securing the integrity of information while maintaining availability of information assets must:
* Allow access to information by authorized parties.
* Implement policies that determine who is authorized for what access to which information.
* Employ a strong user authentication system.
* Deny malicious or destructive access to any information asset.
* Protect data from end to end.
Threats to Enterprise Security
A computer network can be attacked in a number of ways with different degrees of damage. These attacks can take several forms:
* Denial of service. The attacker disrupts the smooth flow of information by crashing or overloading a critical device such as a server, router or firewall. This is an attack on the availability of information.
* Theft of information. The attacker acquires information that is proprietary to the organization. This can be done by eavesdropping, by masquerading as an authorized entity, or by a brute-force attack such as the use of a computer program that guesses passwords. This is an attack on the ownership of information and intellectual property.
* Corruption of data. The attacker either destroys or corrupts data stored on disk or corrupts data as it is transmitted across the network. This is an attack on the integrity of information.
Threats to the availability, ownership and integrity of information assets can arise at any of these locations (Figure 1):
* The people who use the system (divulging passwords, losing token cards, etc.)
* Internal network connections such as routers and switches.
* Interconnection points such as gateways between corporate intranets and the Internet.
* Third-party network carriers such as long-distance carriers and ISPs.
* Application-level imposters, eavesdroppers and attackers.
Establishing adequate or even impenetrable security at one point of attack while leaving one or more of these other points uncovered is like posting a guard at the front desk and leaving the company's doors and windows wide open. An employee who seeks revenge or a serious thief will try every avenue of entry, particularly if the value of the information is great and the access is relatively easy.
Elements of a Comprehensive Security Solution
A complete security solution that maximizes the benefits of networked data communications must contain these elements:
[check] Physical protection--where are you? [check] User authentication--who are you? [check] Access control--what asset are you allowed to use? [check] Encryption--what information should be hidden? [check] Management--what is going on within the network?
An enterprise may employ any or all of these elements to achieve integrity and access control. The best strategy depends on the risk involved, the cost of the deployment and the cost of a security breach or lost data.
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Physical Security
Physical risks most often involve access to machines or people. A number of strategies can be used to enhance physical security:
* Place computers in a secure environment. The degree to which the console, keyboard, and monitor of a computer can be physically accessed determines the level of system security. This is a common "back door" opening to an intruder. To implement physical security, organizations often use receptionists, security guards, physical keys, combination or electronic door locks, and other access controls. Train staff to log-off workstations during breaks and meal times. Something else not to be overlooked: Modem pools and all Internet connections should be firewalled.
* Destroy sensitive documents, including disks, when no longer used. Sophisticated tools can reconstruct files supposedly erased from a disk. Only destroying the disk itself guarantees the destruction of the data it once contained.
* Store digital keys on smart cards, not on disks. Disks can be duplicated; smart cards are more difficult to copy.
* Keep passwords secure. Avoid writing passwords down, then sending them through electronic mail or placing them in messages that are archived or incorporated in group discussion systems.
* Do not write PINs on ID cards. This is similar to hiding the front door key under the welcome mat. Security training can help make employees aware of their part in maintaining network security.
* Lock down portable equipment. The laptop computer represents one of the greatest physical threats to a security system, because it contains a great deal of information and can so easily be carried off. Recent headlines that reveal the loss of a laptop containing top-secret government information is a prime example of this threat. The same is true of other devices such as external disk drives, tape backup systems, and the like. These devices must be locked away or bolted to the desk to guard against theft.
User Authentication
Proof of identity is an essential component of any security system. It's the only way to differentiate authorized users from intruders. User authentication to the network is vital for any enterprise that is serious about protecting information assets and knowing who is attempting to the network. Authentication becomes particularly important when some of the more sophisticated communication methods are used.
In addition to proving identity, authentication systems are used to determine what information the requestor can access--for example, a human resources database or corporate financial database. True authentication generally incorporates two or three of the following elements:
* What the user has or possesses (smart card, certificate).
* What the user knows (password).
* A physical attribute (fingerprint or other biometric information).
Authentication is most often achieved through challenge and response, digital certificates, or message digests and digital signatures.
* Challenge and response. In this authentication method, a software agent within a database system or a workgroup server presents the person requesting access to a resource with a challenge, most often a request for a username and password. This is the most common form of security and one that is easily broken when passwords are not carefully chosen and maintained. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) guard against unauthorized access to this sensitive information in an extranet--such as those linking hospitals, clinics, and other providers. IDSs monitor information systems, correlate and report on suspect activity, and create complete logs of all information transactions. More importantly, the IDS will be able to tie together audit trails from disparate systems such as firewalls, router, and NT or UNIX system event logs. This capability is a critical element in satisfying federal requirements.
* Digital certificates. One of the earliest uses of digital certificate technology was Privacy Enhanced Mail, the predecessor to S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), a widely used specification that brought a higher level of security to e-mail through encryption and digital signature-based authentication. Since their introduction, the use of digital certificates has continued to grow steadily. Digital certificates are essential components of a public key infrastructure (PKI), which can be generally defined as a security system that consists of protocols, services, and standards that support applications of public key cryptography. Public key cryptography is used to validate messages that have been digitally signed. Such messages can be simple e-mail or part of a protocol that establishes a secure communications session. The sender of the message to be authenticated digitally signs the message using a private key. The signature can be validated using the sender's corresponding public key, which is contained in the sender's certificate and can either be sent along with the message or retrieved from a certificate repository.
* Message Digests and Digital Signatures. Applying a one-way hash function such as MD5 or SHA-1 to a message creates message digests. "One-way" means that the original message cannot be recreated from the digest. A digital signature uses the private key of an individual to encrypt the message digest. At the receiving end, the digest is recreated from the message text, the public key is used to decrypt the digest from the digital signature, and the two message digests are compared. If they match, the messages are probably the same. Comparison of the message digests provides both a means of authenticating the signature and a check of message integrity.
Access Control
Access control governs a user's ability to make a connection to a particular network, computer or application, or to a specific kind of data traffic. The increasing use of the Internet is heightening the concerns of network administrators about the security of their network infrastructure and their organization's private data. And in the light of HIPAA security regulations, these concerns are becoming even more critical for healthcare providers.
The first step in establishing secure network access is to define a security policy. The National Computer Security Association (NCSA), for example, recommends starting with the most secure policy: denying all services to anyone, except for what is explicitly permitted. Many policies can be enforced through the use of technology.
Access from external systems is generally implemented using network firewalls. A firewall is a group of systems or a mechanism that enforces a security policy to protect an internal (trusted) network from an external (untrusted) one. The firewall determines which inside services can be accessed from the outside, which outsiders are permitted access to the permitted inside services, and which outside services can be accessed by insiders.
For a firewall to be effective, all traffic to and from the Internet must pass through the firewall, where it can be inspected. The firewall must permit only authorized traffic to pass, and the firewall itself must be immune to penetration. A firewall system cannot offer any protection once an attacker has gotten through or around it.
Even if both access control and authentication security systems are completely effective, the enterprise can still be at risk when data communications travel over a third-party network such as the Internet.
Encryption is used to protect against eavesdropping. It renders information private by making it unreadable to all except those who have the key needed to decrypt the data. It does not matter whether a third party intercepts packets over the Internet; the data still cannot be read. This approach can be used throughout the enterprise network, including within the enterprise (intranet), between enterprises (extranet) or over the public Internet to carry private data in a virtual private network (VPN).
Encryption systems in common use today include the following:
* Shared key encryption. Both or all parties possess a previously distributed key that locks and unlocks the data. The sender provides the key to a shared symmetrical encryption algorithm to encode the data before placing it in a packet bound for the remote site; the remote site then provides the key to the same encryption algorithm to decode the data.
* Public key encryption. One party possesses a private unlocking key and makes a public locking key. Any sender can use the public key to encrypt the communication; the receiver then uses its corresponding private key to decrypt the data.
* Secure key exchange. Both parties first authenticate themselves (often using digital certificates) during a session-specific encryption key distribution process. The session key is created based on data generated by both parties at the time of communication. This key can then be used to encrypt and decrypt all other communications.
Security Management
A security system should allow for oversight and control by a human authority. Any system that uses authentication requires some central authority to verify those identities, whether it be the/etc/password file on a UNIX host, a Windows NT domain controller, or a Novell Directory Services (NDS) server. The ability to see histories, such as repeated failed attempts to breach a firewall, can provide invaluable information to those charged with protecting information assets. Some of the more recent security specifications, such as Internet Protocol Security 0PSec), require the presence of a database containing policy rules.
All these elements must be managed for the system to work correctly. However, management consoles or functions themselves represent another potential point of failure of a security system. It is therefore important to ensure that these systems are physically secured and that authentication is in place for any log-on to a management console.
* Internet Protocol Security. As the Internet becomes more critical to organizations and enterprises of all sizes, the need to protect intellectual property and at the same time conduct business has grown. To promote security for business communications, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) developed Internet Protocol Security. IPSec offers standards-based, consistent security for IP networks. In an IPSec communication, the two communicating entities (which can be individual hosts or intervening devices, such as routers or firewalls) first establish a Security Association (SA). During negotiation of the SA, the two entities agree on what kind of security will be employed. A security policy database (SPD) keeps track of the kinds of security, encryption and authentication that a particular enterprise can implement, and also keeps track of the active security associations. This makes it possible to monitor IPSec activity across the network and to manage the security systems employed at any given site.
Securing End-to-End Data Access
It is hard to overstate the importance of the end-to-end aspect of network security. Security starts with well-defined and wellenforced security policies implemented by efficient and robust encryption on NICs, authentication and authorization in the LAN switches, and robust and flexible firewall and security management instrumentation.
VPNs and Tunnel Switching
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a secure connection that offers the privacy and management controls of a dedicated, point to-point link but actually occurs over a shared, routed network such as the Internet. VPNs are created using encryption, authentication, and tunneling, a method by which data packets in one protocol are encapsulated within another protocol. Tunneling enables traffic from multiple enterprises to travel across the same network unaware of each other, as if enclosed in their own private pipes.
Security Solutions
The HIPAA legislation confronts many healthcare providers with the need to review and upgrade security policies and procedures. Although this is not an easy task, 3Com and other vendors offer product solutions and consulting services to help ensure that an organization's data network infrastructure provides the security, reliability, and manageability to support compliance with the regulation.
Acronyms and Abbreviations
AH Authentication Header BITS Bump in the Stack BITW Bump in the Wire CPU Central Processing Unit DES Data Encryption Standard ESP Encapsulating Security Payload HMAC Hashed Message Authentication Code IDEA Internet Development and Exchange Association IDS Intrusion Detection System IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IPSec Internet Protocol Security ISP Internet Service Provider KMAC Keyed Message Authentication Code MAC Message Authentication Code NIC Network Interface Card PKI Public Key Infrastructure SA Security Association SPD Security Policy Database TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol VPN Virtual Private Network
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Influence of federal cyber workforce roadmap growing
Agencies and universities are refining job descriptions, revamping training and education programs and helping industry, academia and government to begin to reach consensus on the makeup of a modern-day cybersecurity workforce. The Office of Personnel Management also has made changes to personnel systems so that job descriptions map to the framework. The plan already has had in impact on cyber education at colleges and universities across the country.
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Data Technician: Job Description & Career Info
Data technicians should be detail-oriented, comfortable with computers and swift when typing on the keyboard. Read on to find out more about job duties, potential employers, training and employment outlook for data technicians.
Career Definition
Data technicians, also known as data-entry keyers, clerks or coders, are responsible for the collection, recording and retrieval of information. They read source documents, verify the accuracy of the information, prepare reports and manage data storage and retrieval systems. They often work for universities, hospitals, laboratories and other organizations that process significant amounts of information. Most of their work takes place on computers, but some jobs also require handling and packaging materials to be tested in laboratories.
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Required Education
Hiring requirements for entry-level data technicians include a high-school diploma or General Educational Development (GED) equivalent. Applicants should also have good keyboarding skills and a general knowledge of word processing programs and the use of the Internet. Some employers prefer candidates with an associate degree or training in spreadsheet or accounting applications. Useful high-school or college courses include basic office applications, medical terminology and English.
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Nope, that body laughs at me and says "Nope, you are not!" all the time...
But why not?
I want to feel the energy and drive I did back then.
I want to have the vitality from those yesterdays today.
I just takes a little more effort and patience on my part these days.
That's OK.
I know I can do it.
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Do you ever catch yourself in the kitchen? A lot?
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She looks fabulous at church; she looks great at a picnic; she looks stunning at camp, and she even looks adorable after a workout! What is that all about??? We ran a 5k together this last Saturday, and took a selfie of the two of us afterward. And guess what the picture revealed? Upon close inspection (actually I noticed it within a quick glance) it became quite apparent that she looked super cute (after running those brutal 5 kilometers in not such lovely weather), and I was a scary sight!
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In accordance with the invention, nanoscale connectors particularly useful for connecting microscale devices comprise free-standing nanoscale conductors. The nanoscale conductors are conveniently fabricated in sets of controlled, preferably equal length by providing a removable substrate, growing conductive nanotubes or nanowires on the substrate, equalizing the length of the nanoscale conductors, and removing the substrate. Preferably the removable substrate is soluble, leaving a collection of free standing nanoscale connectors in suspension or solution.
1. The method of preparing free-standing, equal length nanoscale conductive connectors comprising the steps of:
providing a removable substrate;
growing aligned nanoconductors on the substrate;
equalizing the lengths of the nanoconductors grown on the substrate; and
removing the substrate to leave free standing, equal length nanoconductors.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the nanoconductors are conductive nanotubes or nanowires.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the removable substrate is a soluble material and the substrate is removed by dissolving it.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the removable substrate includes a nanoconductor growth nucleating film.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the length of the nanoconductors is equalized by the steps of:
providing a substrate including attached nanoconductors;
burying portions of the attached nanoconductors with a sacrificial locking layer deposited to only a desired height level; and
removing the unburied portions of the nanoconductors so that the remaining buried lengths are equalized.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein the sacrificial locking layer is a soluable material.
7. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of functionalizing the nanoconductors by attaching organic molecular functionalities to them.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein the functionalized nanoconductors are soluble.
This invention relates to conductive connecting elements and, in particular, to nanoscale connectors for microdevices such as integrated circuit components and to methods for making such connectors.
As integrated circuits become smaller, structures for electrically connecting microscopic electronic devices become increasingly important. Integrated circuits can now be made with hundreds of thousands of devices of submicron dimension requiring at least as many conductive interconnections among the devices and hundreds of interconnections with packaging leads. As the circuits become smaller and more complex, the difficulties of making sufficiently small, uniform metal wires and metal stripes become increasingly a limitation on circuit design and performance. The standard gold wires used to bond IC pads to package leads are relatively bulky, limiting the minimum size of IC bonding pads, and the metal stripes used to interconnect microdevices within an IC are subject to cross sectional nonuniformities. Accordingly there is a need for nanoscale connectors which provide high, uniform conduction.
In accordance with the invention, nanoscale connectors particularly useful for connecting microscale devices comprise free-standing nanoscale conductors. The nanoscale conductors are conveniently fabricated in sets of controlled, preferably equal length by providing a removable substrate, growing conductive nanotubes or nanowires on the substrate, equalizing the length of the nanoscale conductors, and removing the substrate. Preferably the removable substrate is soluble, leaving a collection of free standing nanoscale connectors in suspension or solution.
The nature, advantages and various additional features of the invention will appear more fully upon consideration of the illustrative embodiments now to be described in detail with the accompanying drawings. In the drawings:
FIGS. 1(a)-(c) schematically illustrates various configuration of nanoscale conductors grown on a substrate;
FIG. 2 schematically illustrates an exemplary process of preparing equal length, free-standing nanoscale conductors;
FIG. 3 illustrates aligned nanoscale conductors grown on a removable substrate;
FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate an exemplary process of equalizing the length of nanoscale connectors;
FIG. 6 shows apparatus for removal of the substrate;
FIG. 7 shows an example of functionalized, equal length, free-standing nanoscale connectors;
FIGS. 8(a) and 8(b) schematically illustrates circuit device interconnections by nanoscale connectors.
It is to be understood that the drawings are for purposes of illustrating the concepts of the invention and are not to scale.
This description is divided into three parts. Part I describes the conventional growth of substrate-supported nanoscale conductors. Part II describes the fabrication of free-standing nanoscale conductive connectors; and Part III describes the use of nanoscale conductive connectors.
I. Nanoscale Conductors and Their Conventional Growth
To understand the invention, it is useful to understand some of the properties of nanoscale conductors ("nanoconductors") and how they are conventionally grown. Nanoconductors are tiny conductive tubes (hollow) or wires (solid) with a very small size scale of the order of 1.0-100 nanometers in diameter and 0.5-10 μm in length. Carbon nanotubes are representative. Their structure and fabrication are reported in J. Liu et al., Science, Vol. 280, p. 1253 (1998); Z. F. Ren et al., Science, Vol. 282, p. 1105 (1998); W. Z. Li, et al., Science, Vol. 274, p. 1701 (1996); S. Frank et al., Science, Vol. 280, p. 1744 (1998); S. J. Tans et al., Nature, Vol. 36, p. 474 (1997); S. Fan, et al., Science, Vol. 283, p. 512 (1999); P. G. Collins et al., Science, Vol. 278, p. 100 (1997); J. Kong et al., Nature, Vol. 395, p. 878 (1998); and T. W. Ebbesen et al., Nature, Vol. 382, p. 54 (1996), all of which are incorporated herein by reference. The synthesis of conductive nanowires based on semiconductor materials such as Si or Ge has also been reported. See, for example, A. M. Morales et al., Science, Vol. 279, p. 208 (1998) which is incorporated herein by reference.
Carbon nanotubes exhibit unique atomic arrangements, having useful physical properties such as one-dimensional electrical behavior, quantum conductance, and ballistic electron transport. The ballistic transport in carbon nanotubes, as reported by Frank et al, permits the passage of huge electrical currents, with the magnitude of current density comparable to or better than those in superconductors. Carbon nanotubes are among the smallest dimensioned nanotubes materials with generally high aspect ratio and small diameter of about ˜1.0 nm in the case of single-wall nanotubes and less than ˜50 nm in the case of multi-wall nanotubes. See A. G. Rinzler et al, Applied Physics, Vol. A67, p. 29 (1998); Kiang et al, J. Physical Chemistry, Vol. 98, p. 6612, (1994); and Kiang et al, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 81, p. 1869 (1998), which are incorporated herein by reference.
High-quality single-walled carbon nanotubes are typically grown as randomly oriented, needle-like or spaghetti-like, tangled tubules. They can be grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), laser ablation or electric arc growth. CVD methods such as used by Ren et al., Fan et al., and Li et al can produce multiwall nanotubes attached onto a substrate, often with aligned, parallel growth perpendicular to the substrate. Carbon nanotubes are grown on a substrate by catalytic decomposition of hydrocarbon-containing precursors such as ethylene, methane, or benzene. Nucleation layers, such as thin coatings of Ni, Co, or Fe, are often intentionally added onto the substrate surface in order to nucleate a multiplicity of isolated nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes can also be nucleated and grown on a substrate without a metal nucleating layer, by using a precursor including one or more of these metal atoms. During CVD the metal atoms serve to nucleate the nanotubes on the substrate surface. See H. M. Cheng et al., Chem. Physics Letters, Vol. 289, p. 602 (1998), which is incorporated herein by reference. Semiconductor nanowires are grown on substrates by similar processes.
Referring to the drawings, FIGS. 1(a)-(c) schematically illustrate various configurations of nanoconductors conductors 10 grown on a substrate 11. The nanoconductors 10 can be carbon nanotubes or Si or GaAs nanowires, synthesize by any one of a variety of methods. In the absence of alignment processing the nanoconductors tend to grow with the random orientation morphology shown in FIG. 1(a) or with the tangled growth morphology shown in FIG. 1(b). Such a tangled morphology of nanoconductors is also obtained in laser ablation synthesis. By using CVD growth in the presence of an applied electric field, a vapor concentration gradient, a temperature gradient, or recessed pores containing catalysts in the substrate, the nanoconductors can be grown with an aligned morphology substantially perpendicular to the substrate. Such aligned nanoconductors 10 are schematically illustrated in FIG. 1(c).
II. Fabrication of Free-Standing Nanoconductors
Nanoscale conductive connectors for connecting microdevices ("nanoconnectors") should be free-standing and preferably of equal length. For reliable circuit interconnections such connectors should be prepared as a collection of free-standing nanoconductors so that they can be placed and bonded for circuit interconnections. They should be of approximately equal length to avoid unwanted short circuits from connectors that are too long and unwanted open circuits from connectors that are too short.
Referring to the drawings, FIG. 2 is a schematic flow diagram of the steps involved in making a collection of free-standing nanoconnectors of controlled, substantially equal length. The first step, shown in block A of FIG. 2, is to provide a removable substrate for nanoconductor growth. Preferably the substrate is removable by dissolving in water or another solvent. The substrate can be a sodium chloride crystal or another water-soluble material. Acid-dissolvable metals such Cu, Ni, Co, Mo, Fe, V, Au, Ag, and their alloys, or base-dissolvable metals such as Al may also be used. Or the substrate can be made of a soluable polymer such as polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetate, polyacrylamide, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene. The removable substrate, alternatively, can be a volatile (evaporable) material such as PMMA polymer.
The removable substrate can be a layered combination of metals or compounds. For example, a solvent-soluble material such as polyacrylamide or an acid-soluable metal such as Cu can be coated with a thin film of nucleating material for nanoconductor growth and used as a substrate during CVD growth. The coating can be a catalyst metal such as Ni, Fe or Co, and can be deposited as a continuous, spotly or patterned film by sputtering, vacuum evaporation or electrochemical deposition.
The next step shown in Block B is to grow aligned nanoconductors on the removable substrate. For example, aligned carbon nanotubes can be grown using CVD growth in the direction of an applied electric field, vapor concentration gradient, temperature gradient, or recessed pores in the substrate to produce aligned nanotubes as discussed in Ren et al., Fan et al. and Li et al. Aligned nanoconductors 10 on a substrate 11 are schematically illustrated in FIG. 1(c). Advantageously the average deviation from vertical growth is less than 25 degrees and preferably less than 15 degrees.
The third step (Block C of FIG. 2) is to equalize the lengths of the grown nanoconductors. Ideally, length equality is achieved by careful growth, but equal length growth is difficult to achieve in practice. FIG. 3 schematically illustrates equal length, aligned nanoconductors 10 on a removable substrate 11.
For aligned nanoconductors grown on a substrate with non-uniform lengths, the third step of FIG. 2 (length-equalization) can be effected by adding to the substrate a sacrificial layer of uniform thickness which will bury the nanoconductors to an equal height level while leaving exposed the nanoconductor material beyond the desired length. This is illustrated in FIG. 4 which shows the nanoconductors 10 partially buried by the sacrificial layer 12. Such a sacrificial locking layer 12 temporarily protects the buried nanoconductor regions 10A while the exposed extra length regions 10B are removed.
The sacrificial layer 12 is desirably a material that can be relatively easily removed after the length equalization, i.e., by dissolving in water or in a solvent, by chemically or electrochemically etching, or by vaporizing through heating. Exemplary sacrificial layer materials include water-soluble or solvent-soluble salts such as sodium chloride, silver chloride, potassium nitrate, copper sulfate, and indium chloride, or soluble organic materials such as sugar and glucose. The sacrificial layer material can also be a chemically etchable metal or alloy such as Cu, Ni, Fe, Co, Mo, V, Al, Zn, In, Ag, Cu—Ni alloy, Ni—Fe alloy and others. These materials can be dissolved in an acid such as hydrochloric acid, aqua regia, or nitric acid, or can be dissolved away in a base solution such as sodium hydroxide or ammonia. The sacrificial layer 12 may also be a vaporizable material such as Zn which can be decomposed or burned away by heat.
The sacrificial layer 12 can be added by chemical deposition such as electroplating or electroless plating, by physical vapor deposition such as sputtering, evaporation, laser ablation, ion beam deposition, or by chemical vapor decomposition. An advantageous method is to electroplate in an electrolyte containing the ions of a metal to be deposited, e.g., Ni from a NiSO4 solution or Cu from a CuSO4-containing solution. The substrate 11 desirably has a catalyst metal coating 13 such as Ni, Co, or Fe. The electrodeposition of the metal preferentially occurs on the catalyst metal coating rather than on the nanoconductors because of chemical affinity. As is well known, the thickness of the electroplated metal is controlled by the processing variables such as the time, temperature, electrolyte concentration, and current density. The thickness of the uniformly deposited sacrificial layer 12 determines the nanoconductor length. For interconnection applications, the desired average length (region 10A) is typically in the range of 10-10,000 nm. Preferably the lengths of at least 90% of the nanoconductors should not deviate more than 20% from the average length.
In the next step of the equalization process, the exposed portions 10B of the nanotubes are removed. In the case of carbon nanotubes, the exposed portion can be burned away by heating in an oxidizing atmosphere at temperatures in the range of 200-1000� C. for 0.1-10,000 minutes. The exposed portion 10B can also be removed by mechanical polishing or chemical etching so that only their buried, equal-length part 10A remains. FIG. 5 schematically illustrates the workpiece after removal of the exposed portions.
The third step of FIG. 2 (length eqaulization) may also be achieved by alternative methods without employing a sacrificial layer. For example, equalization can be achieved by laser cutting or hot blade cutting, as disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/236,933 filed by S. Jin on Jan. 25, 1999 and entitled "Article Comprising Aligned Truncated Carbon Nanotubes" now allowed, which is incorporated herein by reference.
The next step in the process of FIG. 2 (Block D) is to remove the substrate. This includes removing any sacrificial layers used in the length equalization process and any catalyst metal film added for nanoconductor nucleation. Removal is advantageously obtained by dissolving the substrate materials, and the particular solvent used depends on the materials. As shown in FIG. 6, the workpiece comprising the substrate 11 and the equal height nanoconductors 10A is typically placed in a bath of solvent 14. The result of this step is a collection of free-standing, equal length nanoconductors. They typically have diameters averaging less than 100 nm, and the lengths of at least 90% of the nanoconductors in the collection do not deviate by more than 20 percent from the average length.
The free-standing, equal-length nanoconductors obtained by the process of FIG. 2 are advantageously dispersed in liquid or functionalized and dissolved in liquid so that the collection remains separated without agglomeration. Carbon nanotubes allow various chemical modifications of their open ends, outside walls, or the tube-interior cavity by functionalization chemistry. For example, single-wall carbon nanotubes can be made soluable in common organic solvents such as chloroform, dichloromethane, toluene, CS2, chlorobenzene, etc. by attaching long-chain molecules such as octadecylamin, NH(CH2)17CH3, to the open ends of the nanotubes. This can be accomplished via formation of amide functionality. FIG. 7 illustrates carbon nanotubes 10A modified for solution.
Other types of functionalization can induce modification of the electronic bandgap structure (and hence the electrical properties) of the nanoconductors, for example, by dichlorocarbene covalent bonding onto nanotube walls. See J. Chen et al., Science, Vol. 282, p.95, (1998); J. Chen et al., Journal of Materials Research, Vol. 13, p. 2423 (1998); and J. Liu et al., Science, Vol. 280, p. 1253 (1998), which are incorporated herein by reference.
III. Nanoscale Connection
The free-standing, equal-length dispersed nanoconductors can be applied to an electronic circuit and for interconnection and bonding. We will refer to such connectors as nanoconnectors.
As shown in FIG. 8(a) the nanoconnectors 10A can be placed on circuit pads 80 by individual micro-manipulation or nano-manipulation under high resolution microscope. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 8(b) the nanoconnectors 10A are placed by random dropping such as by sedimentation from a thin layer of solution. Because of the equal-length of the nanoconnectors without undesirably long nanoconnectors, unwanted electrical shorting is avoided. The nanoconnectors 10A are then dried and bonded onto the underlying pads 80, as by soldering. The pad surface can be pre-coated with a solder layer and heated together with the contacting nanoconnectors). The device surface can be washed then to remove non-bonded nanoconnectors, i.e. those in FIG. 8(b) which are sitting on the surface of the circuit device without touching any of the contact pads 80. The sedimentation and the solder bonding process can be repeated until all the desired electrical interconnections between adjacent contact pads are obtained.
It is to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative of only a few of the many possible specific embodiments which can represent applications of the principles of the invention. Numerous and varied other arrangements can be readily devised by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world. HIV has remained associated with sex work, and large sums of money provided to fund public health interventions have come from global institutions such as UNAIDS, the World Bank and USAID. In the midst of these processes, however, sex workers and their everyday lives have been hidden behind the rhetorics of control and prevention.
This book offers a detailed analysis of the experiences of sex workers in Chennai. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it draws out themes of agency; notions of gender and sexuality; and the HIV prevention industry. While the women's experiences are closely knit into the medical discourse regarding sex workers, sex work emerges as a complicated knot of poverty, desire, women's oppression, love, co-option, and motherhood. The author examines how the sex workers actively negotiate the risks of their industry and suggests alternative discourses on women's sexuality, sexual behaviour and desire, arguing that unless the power imbalances affecting women are addressed, such policies and activities will have little impact. She brings attention to the problems of current policies, discourses and attitudes regarding HIV, sexuality and sex work, and shows how new policies could help to reduce vulnerabilities not only for sex workers, but perhaps for all women in India.
1. Introduction 2. Contextualizing Sex Work in Chennai 3. Women in Sex Work 4. What happened to 2.2 Million People? 5. Negotiating the Problems of Selling Sex 6. Alternative Discourses of Sex and Sexuality 7. Conclusion
Salla Sariola is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Durham. Currently researching international medical research collaboration, bioethics and governance of clinical trials in Sri Lanka, her research interests include anthropology of science and technology, global health, and gender and sexuality.
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Sometimes...the shoes are just squeaky. And when a person moves, the shoes squeak. Asking the person not to move in a tennis match is...well, kinda unrealistic.
And some courts tend to be 'squeakier' than others as well, for instance, I played on a really slick indoor court this weekend, and I was squeaking like you wouldn't believe (my shoes are also worn down). Absolutely none of it was really under my control and none of it was 'intended'...but I'm not going to *not* prepare for the ball just because I think my shoes might distract my opponents. I believe someone else also said it...if that bothers a person, they have much bigger focus problems that they need to fix.
I think you'd always have a hard time trying to prove 'intent' if you think someone is doing it deliberately while you're serving as well. Some people split-step, and some people move their feet more than that while getting ready to receive the ball. In my opinion, it is just too minor of an area to get too worked up about. *shrug* Your mileage may vary...
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CINCINNATI,OH - SEPTEMBER 19: Jason Taylor #99 of the Miami Dolphins is tackled by Bobbie Williams #63 of the Cincinnati Bengals after intercepting a pass during thier NFL game at Paul Brown Stadium on September 19, 2004 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Right guard Bobbie Williams, who has been a staple of the Bengals' offensive line since he signed with the team in 2004, was placed on injured reserve after he broke his right ankle during the first half of Sunday's 20-19 loss to Houston. In Williams eight seasons with the Bengals, this will mark the first time he will miss games due to a football-related injury. He missed three games in 2006 due to rehab from an appendectomy he underwent and then was out for four games this year as he served a four-game suspension due to a violation of the NFL's policy on performance enhancing substances when he took a diuretic. Williams has started all 118 games he has played with the Bengals. Mike McGlynn, who the Bengals got on waivers from Philadelphia before the season started, is the favorite to take over the position. The fourth-year player saw extensive time in the San Francisco game and then started the Buffalo game in place of Clint Boling, who struggled. Boling, who was drafted in the fo...
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MinuteHound is a well known company that specializes in biometric attendance. These top 5 methods to stop buddy punching are now available to inform all business owners on how to reduce costs, and increase savings.
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MinuteHound releases top 5 methods to stop buddy punching in the office and other situations which cause companies to lose money. Large and small companies all over the world are losing billions of dollars in payroll expenses from employee time theft such as buddy punching and from human error.
MinuteHound is now offering companies a biometric time & attendance managing solution that will stop the costly practice of buddy punching in the office for good. Payroll fraud and human accounting errors can also stop with MinuteHound´s attendance software, which supports high-tech biometric fingerprint technology.
MinuteHound´s top 5 methods to stop buddy punching in the office and other situations which cause companies to lose money are based on their just released biometric scanner device and time attendance software. Using biometric scanners, instead of time cards, identification badges or swipe cards, eliminates any possibility of buddy punching occurring in the office. This effectively eliminates payroll fraud, human errors and accounting errors that cost companies a lot of money.
MinuteHound´s top 5 methods to stop buddy punching in the office, and other situations which cause companies to lose money, are listed below.
- Buddy Punching — The attendance software and biometric technology now available from MinuteHound requires employees to physically log into work by placing their finger or thumb on one of the biometric scanners. This effectively prevents buddy punching from occurring because no two persons have the same fingerprints.
- Human Error and Forgetfulness — The attendance software is designed to confront and prevent human errors such as when employees forget, or claim to have forgotten, to clock into work. MinuteHound´s newly released time clock software will send out an alert message or email when employees fail to show-up for work. In this way, managers and supervisors will know when employees show up late or not at all.
- Cheating/Payroll Fraud – Employees who claim more hours than actually worked is a big problem for companies, especially for companies who still use the old honor system for calculating payroll. Biometric scanners and supporting software eliminates money lost to payroll fraud.
- Time Card/ Time Clock Manipulation — Altering time cards is a common practice among employees who try and cheat their employers. MinuteHound´s attendance system eliminates the use of time cards, ID badges and swipe cards. This makes time card manipulation impossible.
- Accounting Errors — MinuteHound is now offering a paperless attendance accounting system, which produces automated and highly accurate reports free of human error. This is made possible because employees are required to use their fingerprint to log-in and log-out from work.
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The New Standard is a minority broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines. It is owned by the Romualdez family. Romualdezes also owns Journal Publications, Inc., the proprietor of the People's Journal, a tabloid newspaper.
Initially established as the Manila Standard, it merged with another newspaper of record, Today, on March 6, 2005 and became Manila Standard Today or MST. The news organization maintains its quality to be one of the trusted news sources in the Philippines.
The New Standard's business and editorial offices are located at the 2nd floor of the PJI Building, Railroad cor. 20th Sts., Port Area, City of Manila.
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The Manila Standard was founded on February 11, 1987 when the conglomerate owned by the family of Spanish-Filipino businessman Manuel Elizalde established the publishing company Standard Publications Inc.
In 1989, the group of companies owned by Andres Soriano III bought out the Elizalde group and renamed the company Kagitingan Publications.
In June 1991, the group of businessman Alfonso Yuchengco bought into the company and spun off the publishing company. It was incorporated as Kamahalan Publishing Corporation. Kagitingan Publications was renamed Kagitingan Printing Press Inc., which continues to print the New Standard.
In 1997, businessman Enrique K. Razon Jr., chairman and president of the International Container Terminal Services Inc., acquired the shares of the Yuchengcos and bought out the Soriano group to become the sole owner of Kamahalan Publishing Corporation and Kagitingan Printing Press Inc.[1]
Victor Agustin took reigns as chairman of the Editorial Board in 2008. Under his term, the company formally adopted an advocacy for the environment.
In 2010, just as the Aquino administration took the reins of power, ownership of the Manila Standard Today changed hands again. This time, the Razon group sold its interest to the Romualdez group as Razon established Bloomberry Resorts & Hotels Corporation, owner of the Solaire Resort & Casino.[1]
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BOSTON, July 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategy Meets Action (SMA), a leading insurance strategic advisory firm, has just released a new research report, Policy Administration: P&C Plans and Priorities. Results from SMA's survey of North American property and casualty insurers show definite signs of real progress in transforming from legacy to modern policy administration systems. Over 40% of insurers are currently involved in either PAS (Policy Administration Systems) vendor selection, planning for a PAS change, or the implementation of a PAS solution. And it is very encouraging that insurers are experiencing success in the implementation process. This high level of activity reflects the high volume of deals that SMA sees occurring in the PAS market space in all areas of P&C business.
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