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Monday, April 14, 2008
Atomically Precise Manufacturing - Tiny Assembly Lines
A University of Texas at Dallas team will play a key role in a new $15 million research project designed to enable manufacturing at an almost unimaginably small scale: one atom at a time.
Known as atomically precise manufacturing, the technique is expected to enable a wide variety of devices and products, including:
* Ultra-low-power semiconductors for cellphones and other wireless communications.
* Sensors with ultra-high sensitivity.
* Data encryption orders of magnitude more secure than existing technology.
* Optical elements that enable unprecedented performance in computing and communications.
* Customized surfaces that would have an array of applications in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries.
* Nanoscale genomics arrays that would enable a person's complete genetic sequence to be read in less than two hours.
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Keywords: Tiny Assembly Lines, Ultra-low-power semiconductors, cellphones, wireless communications, Sensors, Customized surfaces, Nanoscale genomics arrays, complete genetic sequence
Known as atomically precise manufacturing, the technique is expected to enable a wide variety of devices and products, including:
* Ultra-low-power semiconductors for cellphones and other wireless communications.
* Sensors with ultra-high sensitivity.
* Data encryption orders of magnitude more secure than existing technology.
* Optical elements that enable unprecedented performance in computing and communications.
* Customized surfaces that would have an array of applications in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries.
* Nanoscale genomics arrays that would enable a person's complete genetic sequence to be read in less than two hours.
More from here
Keywords: Tiny Assembly Lines, Ultra-low-power semiconductors, cellphones, wireless communications, Sensors, Customized surfaces, Nanoscale genomics arrays, complete genetic sequence
Labels: Material-Sciences
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