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Article: Process orders nanowire arrays.
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- TRN Newswire
- Article date:
- September 23, 2003
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TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH NEWS
Harvard University researchers have found a way to neatly layer and pattern rows of nanowires.
The method is a step toward using the microscopic wires to build electronics components from the ground up rather than the usual top-down approach of photolithography, which uses light and chemicals to etch components into chips made from semiconductors like silicon.
The researchers used nanowires that were 45 and 90 nanometers in diameter. A nanometer is the span of 10 hydrogen atoms. The arrays could be used to form devices like nanoscale light-emitting diodes and densely-packed computer chips.
The researchers used ...