Talk:Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology

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"G2N is a fabrication laboratory that integrates a range of thin-film manufacturing, assembly, testing, and characterization equipment to create electronic systems in the very large (a few billion pixels) and very small (a few nanometres) size range". This is not true, the Waterloo website explicitly states the G2N lab lithography equipment can only do up to 1 micrometer - this is not nanometers.

Nanotech @ Waterloo does not deserve its own page. Should be merged into University of Waterloo page. I can attest too that Waterloo does not fab (except for some very minor solar panel research) any components/silicon onsite. Most are sent to Cornell with a 4-6 month turn-around period. 207.171.180.101 (talk) 21:16, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

to reiterate what others have already said, this article is not on the nanotechnology undergraduate program. The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Nanotechnology undergraduate program are two separate entities with separate funding and different directors. This article is on a major research institute, which is considerably funded and comparable to the Institute for Quantum Computing at Waterloo, which also has a Wikipedia article. Also, the fact that some of the researchers who require lithography work (which immediately excludes the majority, who do not - the ones who work on biomaterials or nanomaterials, simulation work etc) might collaborate with peers at Cornell University is really of no relevance to questioning the notability of this particular institute.

Nanotechnology at Waterloo is actually a ripoff. You actually don't learn any engineering skills there, all nano components are not fabricated onsite, instead they are fabricated at Cornell University. It is more like a Nanotechnician program where you learn how to support nano engineers by giving you the correct skills to pour chemicals. 38.113.177.105 (talk) 14:27, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Eh? No one has even graduated from the Nanotech program. The classes are literally being taken for the first time. I'm all for inter-university flamebait, but at least give it a few years, and maybe your trolling will at least make sense. --38.117.98.120 (talk) 00:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article isn't about the nanotechnology program, dumbass. Its about WIN, which is a research institute. It is separate from the undergrad program. And where did you get this Cornell info? I can personally attest that that is not true. You obviously have no clue what you are talking about. July 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.2.57.161 (talk) 18:49, 15 July 2009 (UTC) EDIT: Oh and, surprise surprise, I can see from your IP that you wrote that from the University of Toronto. It all makes sense... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.2.57.161 (talk) 18:53, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

While you folks might have some legitimate complaints about the program itself, this isn't about any undergraduate program. Lets focus on the issues with the article: mainly, it reads like something that belongs in a brochure, not in an encyclopedia. Lets have at this thing and make an article out of it.173.33.42.46 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:40, 29 July 2009 (UTC).[reply]