Saturday, 16. August 2008
Topic: SCIENCE - on August 16, 2008 at 3:05:00 PM CEST
Self -growing material promises chip, storage advances
In the ever-growing desire to product smaller, less costly yet more powerful and faster computers and storage devices, researchers today said they are looking at a way to use self-growing fabrics that will let manufacturers build nano-sized high resolution semiconductors and arrays that answer that craving.
Researchers at the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) at the University of Wisconsin - Madison have come up with a method that uses existing technology to combine the lithography techniques traditionally used to pattern microelectronics with novel self-assembling materials known as block copolymers, researchers said. When combined with a lithographically patterned surface, the block copolymers' long molecular chains spontaneously assemble into the designated arrangements, researchers said.
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