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Avogadro Scale Engineering
Molecular Machine (Jacobson) Group MIT June
2004
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Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group
red blood cell 5 ?m (SEM)
diatom 30 ?m
DNA proteins nm
Simple molecules lt1nm
bacteria 1 ?m
m
SOI transistor width 0.12?m
Semiconductor Nanocrystal 1 nm
Circuit design Copper wiring width 0.1?m
Nanotube Transistor (Dekker) 1012 bits/cm2
(1Tbit/cm2)
IBM PowerPC 750TM Microprocessor 7.56mm8.799mm 6.
35106 transistors
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Fabricational Complexity

• Total Complexity
• Complexity Per Unit Volume
• Complexity Per Unit TimeEnergy
• Complexity Per unit Cost

Ffab ln (W) / a3 tfab Efab Ffab ln
(M)e-1 / a3 tfab Efab
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Fabricational Complexity
Can we use this map as a guide towards future
directions in fabrication?
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Moleography MIT
Direct Beam Fabricated Structures
Ridley, B.A., B. Nivi, and J.M. Jacobson,.
Science, 1999. 286(5440) p. 746-749 (First
Demonstration of All Inorganic Active Devices
(Transistors) Solely from Nanoparticle Building
Blocks). Bulthaup, C.A.,Jacobson et al.. Applied
Physics Letters, 2001. 79(10) p.
1525-1527. Ridley, B.A., et al.,. Materials
Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 2000.
581\ Griffith, S., et al.. Journal of Vacuum
Science Technology B, 2002. 20(6) p. 2768-2772.
Jacobson Group 2004