Re: [Sci.nanotech] Re: End of lithography at 32 nm?

From: Jim Logajan (JamesL_at_lugoj.com)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: 1 Sep 2004 04:59:11 GMT

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:
> Jim Logajan <JamesL@lugoj.com> wrote:
>> Lithography and related technologies are modestly fast ways to
>> duplicate 2- D patterns from a set of templates.
>
> Modestly fast? Exposing a billion features in one second? What's much
> faster?

Well, if you wanted on the order of, say, 10^18 features, it'd take you
about 30 years at that rate (assuming you could produce the wafer surfaces
at the same rate!). So on larger scales I think it could be called only
"modestly fast." This being a nanotech newsgroup, I'd say self replicating
assemblers would "real dang faster". Just my humble opinion.

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