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# UT chemistry professor wins 50 million yen

> A UT chemistry professor recently became the winner of the Japan Prize, an award similar to the Nob...

A UT chemistry professor recently became the winner of the Japan Prize, an award similar to the Nobel Prize that comes with a cash award of 50 million Japanese yen, roughly $560,000, for his development of a process that is now used to manufacture nearly all microprocessors and memory chips worldwide.

The Japan Prize Foundation announced Wednesday that C. Grant Willson, a professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at UT, is one of this year’s two winners of the award. The Japan Prize is given out each year by the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan to honor scientists from around the world who have made great strides in the fields of science and technology, according to a UT press release.

Willson said he will share the prize money with Jean M.J. Fréchet, a colleague and friend, who, 34 years ago, began the research with him that led to this recognition, according to the press release.

The press release stated that the two met while working in the Research and Development division of IBM. The company had been making great advances in the rapidly growing manufacturing chips industry but had hit a snag in its product development.

The company had been able to double the number of devices on each of its manufacturing chips every two years by shrinking the devices down through the principle of Moore's Law, which states the density of transistors on integrated circuits will double every two years. However, continuing to advance the product by using that principle did not seem possible, the press release stated.

Further shrinkage of the devices would have required shorter wavelength ultraviolet light and the lightbulbs available did not produce much light at a short wavelength. This meant it would take hours to develop more advanced product, an amount of time not practical for mass production, according to the press release.

The press release stated that Wilson and Frecht then proposed the idea of using a catalyst to reduce the amount of light required for the process, and to their surprise, it worked.

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According to the UT press release, Wilson says it may soon be the end of his groundbreaking work’s implementation, however, as technology continues to develop. He has partnered with S V Sreenivasan, a professor of mechanical engineering at UT, to create a new process to replace the one he discovered decades ago. It is called nanoimprint lithography.

The press release stated that the researchers have worked to develop and commercialize it, and in 2012 were named Inventors of the Year by UT’s Office of Technology Commercialization.

Together Willson and Sreenivasan founded an Austin-based semiconductor manufacturing company, Molecular Imprints, that now has more than 100 employees that provide state-of-the-art semiconductor memory devices. These technologies are similarly implemented in other related fields including light emitting diodes (LED), solar energy and biotechnology markets, according to a January UT press release and the company’s website.A research team headed up by the University of Houston is on track to develop a superconducting wire for [curvingmachineppk](http://curvingmachine.alnami.net/category/washer-extractor/).

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