From: pangher@FHI-Berlin.MPG.DE (Nick)
Subject: INFO: Need info on Russell Taylor / Nanotechnology
Date: 19 Aug 93 10:44:10 +0100
Organization: Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG,Berlin

In the announcement

>Third Foresight Conference on
>Molecular Nanotechnology:
>Computer-Aided Design of Molecular Systems

>October 14-16, 1993
>Palo Alto, California

this seminar was announced

>Virtual Reality for Nanotechnology

>Russell Taylor, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at
>Chapel Hill, will be speaking on a subject of particular interest to
>two groups of people: (1) surface scientists who are interested in
>better interfaces to their instruments, and (2) builders of virtual
>worlds, since the system is an example of a virtual world applied to a
>scientific problem.

>The system under discussion, the Nanomanipulator, is an immersive
>virtual-environment interface to a Scanning Tunneling Microscope
>(STM).  A head-mounted display presents a scaled image of the surface
>being scanned by the STM in front of the user while a force-feedback
>Argone-III Remote Manipulator (ARM) allows the user to feel contours
>on the surface.  Computer-controlled instrumentation allows the user
>to make bias pulses at specified locations, thus modifying the
>surface.

I would like to contact Russell Taylor, or at least I would like to
read some literature about this work of his.  Does anybody out there
have his e-mail address?  I am doing my phd in surface science and I
would like also to know if there are other people doing similar works,
and how succesful they have actually been in realizing this sort of
control system.

Please, do mail me the answers at 
pangher@fhi-berlin.mpg.de

Thanx
Nick

Nicola Pangher
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Faradayweg 4-6
D-14195 Berlin
Deutschland

pangher@fhi-berlin.mpg.de
pangher@rz-berlin.mpg.de