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Nano imprint lithography, a way of inexpensively manufacturing miniature devices, could become a critical production process for information technology, medicine and environmental science.![](/web/20061025201453im_/http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/home/separator_horizontal.gif)
Imagine making a free-hand sketch of a house, and then quickly digitally converting this rough, two-dimensional image into a crisp, straight-lined 3D virtual house. This could be close to a reality with NRC's Sketch-based Design technology, presently under commercialization.![](/web/20061025201453im_/http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/home/separator_horizontal.gif)
![NRC scientists are using a cutting-edge nanolithography hot embosser (shown here) to create new biohazard detection and medical diagnosis technologies.](/web/20061025201453im_/http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/photos/200508wind01-sm.jpg)
What does NRC Aerospace do when a client requires icing tests on a new helicopter engine configuration and its facilities are already booked for the winter? It turns its existing propulsion wind tunnel into a state-of-the-art facility for icing certification tests on engines and their surrounding nacelles.
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