Research done by a group led by Professor Xiang Zhang at the University of California-Berkeley, has been named one of 2005s Top 10 Nanotechnology Breakthroughs by the Journal of Nanotechnology Law and Business, a peer reviewed journal devoted to the legal, business, and policy aspects of small scale technologies.

Professor Zhang's research group was honored for its work in developing an optical superlens that breaks the optical diffraction limit that has been a fundamental limit in optics for over century. The group was able to visualize a nanowire array at 60 nm, and the word NANO, which had been written with lines of 40 nm wide. This technology may revolutionize the fields of optical imaging, lithography, as well as high density data storage. Further details on this work can be found using the links listed on the left.

Professor Xiang Zhang is the Director of The Center for Scalable and Integrated Nano Manufacturing (SINAM). SINAM is a National Science Foundation Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, which brings together a team of scientists and engineers from UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, UCSD, UNCC, and HP Labs.