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Monday, February 12, 2007

"NANOTECH: Nanowires eyed for imprint litho"

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and a trio of academic labs have scored advances that will make it easier to use nanowires as a replacement for lithography in semiconductor manufacturing, potentially taking chip making to the angstrom scale (an angstrom is 1/10 of a nanometer). Nanowires, fabricated using self-aligned superlattices to create "stamping dice," today can consistently imprint features as small as 15 nm, enabling ultrahigh-density interconnection crossbars as well as memory densities as high as 100 Gbits/cm2.
Text: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197004208