Re: What practical uses is nanotechnology achieving now?

From: John Larkin (jjlarkin_at_highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: 14 Aug 2004 00:50:37 GMT

On 13 Aug 2004 23:54:59 GMT, "puggy"
<ntlnews@nospamsopissoffpugland.com> wrote:

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>"Kadamose" <Kada@myway.com> wrote in message
>news:cfippm0d5v@enews1.newsguy.com...
>> Definitely, entirely empty. Our computer chips and ICs are be being
>> built at the 32 nm scale (Drexler agrees that this is definitely
>> Nanotech) but I disagree...though the previous microtechnology may
>> have finally reached the nanometer scale...it's still microtechnology
>> and what is known as 'bulk technology' at its core. These current
>> technologies (at least, the ones the public are able to know about) in
>> no way fulfill the promises of MNT, and therefore, should be
>> prohibited from being classified as Nanotech.
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>But surly MNT is a subclass of nanotech? If nanotech is strictly MNT then
>where do you put thinks like nanoparticles and CNT?
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>Like it or not chips are now being made using nanotech under several ways.
>The wafer's are polished flat using nanoparticles, layers are grown using
>CVD in films only a few nanometres and patterns are made using
>nanolithography. All of which comes under several differrent subclass's of
>nanotechnology but are still nanotech!
>

The semiconductor people are certainly *not* calling themselves
nanotech companies. They are too smart to do that.

There are a few self-declared nanotech semiconductor companies, but
none have produced product yet, as far as I am aware.

John

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