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Tihamer Toth-Fejel (ttf@dsg130.nad.ford.com) wrote:

: [Do note, however, that microtech is quite likely to be helpful,
: both as an enabling technology, and as an interface technology.
: --JoSH]
:
: Interface technology? No way, unless nanosystems get built one at a time..
:
: Enabling technology? Other than building cheaper and better STMs and
: chemical and biochemical instrumentation - do we really need microtech?

I agree that microtechnology could be skipped. However, I think that it can be used to a large extent as an interface technology within nanotech stuff. For instance, a good pair of microtech grippers could be used to move nanotech sub-assemblies that were not designed with mobility mechanisms into different positions that would be a much more complex problem (IMHO) using nanotech itself. Does anyone have an idea as to the current precision of microtech devices?

-steve

sekramer@mtu.edu

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