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Subject: GeeK: NanoTechnology
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:29:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Plato)
[Mod: this has come up on geeks@ before, but they've got some amazing
new pictures up, check it out. -d.]
Hey Monkeys, I ran across this at work today. Sandia Labs has improved
a process to manufacture multilayer devices on a chip, and to mix those
mechanical devices with traditional CMOS ones. They call it MEMS,
micro electromechanical systems. The current system is 4 layer and
can produce motors a few tens of microns across and gears and locks and
stuff. They give an example of a motor driving a gear to lift a mirror.
Can you say optical cross connects? :-) Anyhow, it seems worthy for my
first post to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
http://www.mdl.sandia.gov/micromachine/images.html
Larry Plato
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