Sam Fraser
05-01-2010, 07:38 AM
IBM researchers have invented a low-cost and relatively simple fabrication tool capable of reliably creating features as small as 15 nanometers. To show off the tool, the researchers at IBM's Zurich lab made a three-dimensional map of the Earth so small that 1,000 of them would fit onto a single grain of salt.
E-beam lithography requires several steps and tends to be very expensive, with systems costing up to $5 million, says Berggren. The IBM instrument is small enough to sit on a desktop and should cost around $100,000.
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25217/page1/
Using a novel nanotip-based patterning technique, IBM scientists have created a 25 nanometer-high replica of the Matterhorn peak, a famous Swiss mountain that soars 4,478 m (14,692 ft) high on a piece of molecular glass, representing a scale of 1:5 billion (1 nanometer corresponds to 57 altitude meters).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/4517552164/in/set-72157623660255827/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9J0EYUlhg&
E-beam lithography requires several steps and tends to be very expensive, with systems costing up to $5 million, says Berggren. The IBM instrument is small enough to sit on a desktop and should cost around $100,000.
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25217/page1/
Using a novel nanotip-based patterning technique, IBM scientists have created a 25 nanometer-high replica of the Matterhorn peak, a famous Swiss mountain that soars 4,478 m (14,692 ft) high on a piece of molecular glass, representing a scale of 1:5 billion (1 nanometer corresponds to 57 altitude meters).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/4517552164/in/set-72157623660255827/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9J0EYUlhg&