Information and communications technology is an umbrella term including all technologies for the communication of information. Materials scientists have been meeting the needs of the information and communications industries for years - with materials for electronics, fiber optics, magnetic disks, lasers, light-emitting diodes, and more. Cornell's Materials Science and Engineering department has research strengths in organic electronics, growth of thin films, thin film electronics on glass, lithographic materials for microelectronics, silica-based nanoparticles, etc.
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