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The ‘get small’ attitude of the industry is reflected in this research. The specialty of the circuit is two bare wires separated by 15nm distance or roughly around 150 atoms thick. The distance is the main parameter which brings a phenomenon called Coulomb Drag into play. When the two wires are kept undisturbed in each other’s vicinity, the wires behave in a different way than normal. Current starts flowing in them but in opposite directions. In other words if the current flowing through one of the component wire if considered positive, the current in other wire flows negatively as if to cancel the effect. However as we are seeing electronic action in the setup, it is termed as an electric circuit; perhaps the smallest in the world until now!

Surprisingly we are overcoming a difficulty in this circuit, it is the heat generated in it. In normal circuits, heat has to be dissipated through the use of extended surfaces or ‘fins’. However, as the distance is smaller, the heat generated will be smaller as adjacent wires can easily absorb those minute quantities. Moreover, speed will also be a parameter and a point of advantage of these electronic circuits over the conventional ones. The setup being smaller than ordinary, electrical signals will take lesser time to travel from one point to another.

The discovery was a part of research by Guillaume Gervais from McGill’s Physics Department and Mike Lilly from Sandia National Laboratories. The experimental facts and the consequent results were published in online edition of Nature Nanotechnology titled Positive and Negative Coulomb Drag in Vertically Integrated One-Dimensional Quantum Wires.

Financial Assistance and Accommodation :

      Selected students will be provided accommodation at student hostel in IITR. During this period, a remuneration of Rs. 8000 per month will be offered as Financial Assistance. Furthermore, the students will receive an additional Rs. 2000 for preparing posters and interim reports. However, the students will have to bear the expenses of their boarding and lodging as per institute rules.

Minimum Eligibility Criteria for students to apply :

Hurry Last date to Apply is 30 march 2012

For complete Information visit IIT-Rajasthan Summer Internship Page

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi is a global centre of excellence in Information Technology education, training and research.

Its twin aims are:

It aims to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in specified domain areas of IT. Towards this end it plans to organize itself as a conglomerate of R&D Centers, some of which would be in partnership with different companies and global organizations. All centers will also be engaged in teaching and thesis guidance. These centers, with various labs, will be the hub of activity, with active contribution from faculty and students—BTech, MTech and PhD.

Now , Some of the research groups and faculty members of IIIT-Delhi are looking for summer interns for 2012. The list of current opportunities is given below.

To apply for internship

Complete details can be found on IIIT-D Summer Internship Page

They undertake a significant amount of software and hardware development work in their Affordable Solutions Lab, to support their efforts in the National Mission on Education through ICT. Last year, they selected 60 interns to work on these projects, simultaneously enabling them to fulfill the summer internship requirements of their respective academic programs. This year also, they are offering a fresh set of projects. These are described in some detail under the subsection projects. 

All the work under the mission project is released under Open Source. 
Consequently most of the tools and software environment used in their R&D,
are also from Open Source Software(OSS). You will thus be working on Ubuntu
(a variant of Linux), and using Java, MYSQL/Postgress, GCC, and such other 
packages. Even if you do not have adequate exposure to these, you will get 
ample opportunity to learn them during your internship. All they expect is that 
you are able to learn fast, and are able to meaningfully use what you learn.
You will be engaged for a period of 8 weeks. Your project leader will evaluate 
your work at the end of the internship. We expect everyone to work hard, and 
successfully complete the assignments well in advance of the last date.

You have to strictly adhere to the time slots. Requests to adjust the time slot 
will not be entertained.
You have to stay within the IIT campus. A room (on a twin sharing basis) will be 
made available to you during the period of internship.
They will extend nominal financial support which is designed to cover a major 
portion of your expenses during your stay in IIT. Further details of the terms and
conditions are available under the subsection 'Financials'. The tentative schedule
for the program is available under the subsection 'Tentative Schedule'. Detailed 
schedule will be given to you on the first day of internship.
IIT will provide you library reading room facility, and limited access to Gymkhana
facilities.
A certificate will also be issued on successful completion of internship.
Kindly note that Prof Phatak does not give any recommendation letter for 
admission to Institutions outside India.

Eligibility

Students graduating in Computer Science/Engineering, IT,or Electronics.Who 

will be completing 3rd year in April/May 2012. Students completing 2nd year,

with exceptional academic performance and other achievements,may also be

considered.Students with experience in programming and/or hardware design

will be preferred.

Financials

Internship and stay at IIT Bombay involves some items expenditure to be 
incurred by interns. These are:


Rs. 6000/- to be paid to the IIT Bombay academic office (Internship Fee's)
Hostel room rent of Rs 1100/- per month or part thereof (totaling Rs 2200/- 

for the internship period)
Additional Rs 20/- per day if you wish to rent a mattress + bucket
Approximately Rs 100/- per day for food (breakfast, lunch, dinner) in the

vacation mess

Of these, we will pay Rs. 6000/- directly to the institute, on your behalf.
In addition,we will pay you an honorarium of Rs. 8000/- on successful 
completion of 8 weeks of internship. Please note that since this amount 
will be paid at the end, you will have to make your own arrangements to 
meet the lodging and food expenses initially .

For detailed information go to Summer Internship 2012 : IIT Bombay page

Hurry Last Date of application : Friday, 23rd March 2012