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From: mcdonald@aries.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: GaAs considered dead , indium phosphide, rod logic?
Keywords: nanotechnology
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Date: 6 Dec 89 01:41:49 GMT
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At our departmental seminar yesterday the speaker showed fabricated
areas on mica as small as 1 nanometers. These are just basically
scratch marks.  But is is easy to do and a start. And other
materials work also. This was done with the "scanning microscope"
technology. His pictures of steps on ordinary silicon chips were
stunning - you could see the literal atoms of the tops and
sides of mesas.

Doug McDonald