ZURICH-When countries as conservative as Switzerland start tossing big bucks at nanotechnology, it's clear that it has become a serious area of research. Earlier this year the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) opened a $19 million micro- and nanotechnology laboratory. The new facility-called FIRST-Lab, for Frontiers in Research, Space, and Time-took ETH's far-flung nanotech facilities and put them under one roof. It also provides scientists and engineers cutting-edge equipment and the type of pristine labs needed for nano-research. FIRST-Lab has a number of "clean rooms" in which there are fewer than 300 dust particles in each cubic meter of air. The facility takes a …
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