Predicated assembly and biomimetics in micronanomanufacture

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Avogadro Scale Engineering
Molecular Machine (Jacobson) Group MIT January
2005
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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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Chip Fab Example
CMOS Processor Fabrication Time 3 Weeks 7x24
Processing Moores Law 2X 18 Months Can We
Use The Complexity Metric To Do Better?
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DVD6 Disk Replication

• 3 second replication time.
• 3 cents per disk
• 18.8 GB Data
• Pit Size 0.25 um

www.panasonic.com
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NanoTectonics
All-Printed All-Inorganic Transistors Solution
Based Inorganic Semiconductor Chemistry
Ridley et al., Science, 286, 746 (1999) Science
297,416 (2000)
Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group -
MIT www.media.mit.edu/molecular
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NanoTectonics All Printed-All Inorganic 3D nm
Building Blocks Seconds Per Layer
Embossed Chips
200 nm
Ridley et. Al, Science, 286, 746 (1999) Bulthaup
et. Al. APL 79(10) 1525 (2001)
Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group
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NANOTECTONICS
All Printed-All Inorganic Logic Elements
Bulthaup et. Al. APL 79(10) 1525 (2001)
Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group
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Liquid Embossed MEMS
Molecular Machines (Jacobson) Group
Eric Wilhelm, PhD Mech E.
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What Does The Future Look Like?
Parts List
Sensors
Motors
http//lucy.itc.virginia.edu/wmr5a/molecular_vrml
/ATPase/ATPase.htm
Logic
RF Biology
Inorganic Electronic Structure
http//www.mpi-bremen.de/magneto/research/
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Gene LevelError Removal
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Molecular Machines Group-MIT
Faculty Joseph Jacobson Research Scientists and
Post Docs Peter Carr (Whitehead) Kie-Moon Sung
Graduate Students Brian Chow Saul
Griffith David Kong David Mosley
(Chemistry) Chris Emig

• Air inlets
• Crushers
• Ganglion
• Multiple Visual sensors
• Muscles
• Pincers
• Sensory receptors
• Stridulatory pegs
• Wings

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