The Nobel Prize for Technology.

Tuomo Suntola, Finnish physicist, won the  Millennium Technology Prize, thanks to theAtomic Layer Deposition, a technique for the miniaturization and modernization of electronic devices. The award, considered the Nobel in technology, was previously awarded went to giants of scientific research, such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, British computer scientist, co-inventor together with Robert Cailliau of the World Wide Web, Linus Torvalds, creator of the open source Linux operating system, to the physicist Stuart Parkin, father of Big Data and, in 2016, for the first time to a woman Frances Arnold, biochemical engineer, awarded for her research on ""directed evolution"", which reproduces natural evolution to create new proteins in the laboratory.

ALD technology allows materials to be coated with superconducting or insulating films. In the 1970s, its large-scale application marked the beginning of a revolution in electronics, making it possible to obtain more efficient microprocessors and digital memories. complex and efficient. It fits perfectly into the spirit of the award, dedicated to innovations that improve societies and environment: the discoveries of the Northern European physicist, born in 1943, have also had enormous repercussions in other scientific sectors such as medicine, sustainable energy and space.

"Receiving the Millennium Technology Prize is a great honor for me."" says Suntola “especially because this innovation was proven useful in many applications that have improved the quality of of the life of humanity.""

&` also thanks to Suntola, therefore, our smartphones are increasingly evolved.